Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | A poem by Wallace Stevens, 1917
Derrick Greaves, Black Bird / Red Beak, 2008 IAmong twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird....
Poems
The River | A poem by Lewis MacAdams, 2007
Forman Hanna, Canyon Nymph, 1920 I like the way youbent over naked, fleshcafé au lait in the moonlightthrough the bay...
The Sundew | A Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909
Henry Scott Tuke, August Blue, 1893-4 A Little marsh-plant, yellow green,And pricked at lip with tender red.Tread close, and either...
Al Aaraaf | A poem by Edgar Allan Poe, 1829
Edvard Munch, Eye in Eye, 1894 "Sound loves to revel in a summer night:Witness the murmur of the gray twilightThat...
Summer Garden | A poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1959
Leonor Fini, The Passenger, 1964 I want to visit the rosesIn that lonelyPark where the statues remember me youngAnd I...
They want us to be afraid | A poem by Kamand Kojouri, 2017
Snakes and Ladders, board game They want us to be afraid.They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes,to...
Words | A poem by Anne Sexton, 1975
Julia Trigg Be careful of words,even the miraculous ones.For the miraculous we do our best,sometimes they swarm like insectsand leave...
The Future | A poem by Julio Cortázar, 1984
anon And I know full well you won’t be there.You won’t be in the street, in the hum that buzzesfrom...
Mother, Summer, I | A poem by Philip Larkin, 1953
Philip with his mother Eva in the Duke’s Head Hotel, King’s LynnJuly 1971 (The estate of Philip Larkin) My mother, who...
Don’t Let That Horse | A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958
Marc Chagall, Equestrienne, 1931 Don’t let that horseeat that violincried Chagall’s mother But hekept right onpainting And became famous And...