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Visionary
Allen Ginsberg, “Blessed be the Muses”
17 Mar 2025
Ted Hughes, “Rain”
14 Mar 2025
Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”
12 Mar 2025
Louise Glück, “Matins” and “Vespers”
10 Mar 2025
Laurie Sheck, “The Subway Platform”
6 Mar 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”
8 Jan 2025
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”
26 Dec 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”
25 Dec 2024
Anne Finch, “Adam Pos’d”
20 Dec 2024
Joseph Warton, from “The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature”
11 Dec 2024
William Cowper, from “The Task”
28 Nov 2024
William Blake, 3 excerpts from “Jerusalem” on Creativity & Vision
20 Nov 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”
14 Nov 2024
John Clare, “An Invite to Eternity”
11 Nov 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “’Tis better to have loved and lost”: 3 poems from “In Memoriam”
6 Nov 2024
Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
1 Nov 2024
Emily Dickinson, “The Props assist the House”
30 Oct 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”
25 Oct 2024
W. B. Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
23 Oct 2024
Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”
26 Sep 2024
H. D., “The God”
22 Sep 2024
T. S. Eliot, “Preludes”
19 Sep 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Hapax”
11 Sep 2024
Vernon Watkins, 2 Poems for Wine & Festival
10 Sep 2024
Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”
6 Sep 2024
R. S. Thomas, “The Moor”
4 Sep 2024
Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”
25 Aug 2024
James Merrill, from “The Book of Ephraim”
23 Aug 2024
A. R. Ammons, “The City Limits”
22 Aug 2024
W. S. Merwin, “Air”
19 Aug 2024
Robert Pinsky, “The Figured Wheel”
16 Aug 2024
Anne Sexton, “Her Kind”
12 Aug 2024
Ted Hughes, “October Salmon”
7 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney, 2 Bog Poems
1 Aug 2024
Robert Haas, “Meditation at Lagunitas”
31 Jul 2024
Duncan Forbes, “Recension Day”
24 Jul 2024
Alice Oswald, “The mud-spattered recollections of a woman who lived her life backwards”
15 Jul 2024
William Langland, from “The Vision of Piers Plowman”
12 Jul 2024
Edmund Spenser, “The Garden of Adonis”
3 Jul 2024
William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”
30 Jun 2024
John Milton, from “Paradise Lost”
13 Jun 2024
Richard Crashaw, from “The Flaming Heart. Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphicall Saint Teresa”
11 Jun 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Retreat”
8 Jun 2024
Andrew Marvell, “The Garden”
6 Jun 2024
Thomas Traherne, “The Preparative”
4 Jun 2024
Richard Leigh, “Greatness in Little”
31 May 2024
Anne Finch, “A Nocturnal Reverie”
30 May 2024
James Thomson, from “Summer”
28 May 2024
Christopher Smart, from “Jubilate Agno”
24 May 2024
William Blake, “Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring” (from “Milton”)
19 May 2024
William Wordsworth, “Was it for this”
16 May 2024
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Adonais”
12 May 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
2 May 2024
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
30 Apr 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
29 Apr 2024
W. B. Yeats, “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
10 Apr 2024
Laurence Binyon, from “The Burning of the Leaves”
6 Apr 2024
Stephen Crane, “The Heart”
5 Apr 2024
Wallace Stevens, “How to Live. What to Do”
25 Mar 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “Inscription for a Gravestone”
16 Mar 2024
H. D., “Wine Bowl”
14 Mar 2024
T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
10 Mar 2024
Archibald MacLeish, “Voyage West”
8 Mar 2024
Conrad Aiken, “The Room”
6 Mar 2024
Mark Van Doren, “Axle Song”
23 Feb 2024
Louise Bogan, “The Alchemist”
19 Feb 2024
Yvor Winters, “The Slow Pacific Swell”
15 Feb 2024
Kathleen Raine, “Two Invocations of Death”
12 Feb 2024
Richard Eberhardt, “This Fevers Me”
11 Feb 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Spring, Coast Range”
9 Feb 2024
Louis MacNeice, “Wolves”
4 Feb 2024
Vernon Watkins, “Peace in the Welsh Hills”
2 Feb 2024
Bryan Edward Helton, “That Old Dream”
25 Jan 2024
Dylan Thomas, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower”
21 Jan 2024
Delmore Schwartz, “In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave”
18 Jan 2024
Robert Lowell, “Bobby Delano”
15 Jan 2024
Philip Larkin, “Here”
10 Jan 2024
Allen Ginsberg, from “Kaddish”
7 Jan 2024
Derek Walcott, “Tales of the Islands #10”
28 Dec 2023
Seamus Heaney, “Bogland”
21 Dec 2023
Derek Mahon, “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
19 Dec 2023
Alice Oswald, “Various Portents”
11 Dec 2023
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