Now blue October | A poem by Robert Nathan (1894-1985)
Arkhip Kuindzhi, The Dnieper River in the morning, 1881 . Now blue October, smoky in the sun, Must end the...
Poems
My Bohemian Life (Fantasy) | Arthur Rimbaud, 1870
Original handwritten manuscript of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem, Ma bohême . I went off with my hands in my torn coat...
The Wall | A poem by Anne Sexton, 1928-1974
Anne Sexton during her honeymoon at Virginia beach, 1948 . Nature is full of teeth that come in one by...
Poem 135 | A poem by Emily Dickinson, 1859
Penny Slinger, Who Turns Her Back, 1977, collage Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed. Transport—by throe— Peace—by...
Feminine Wit | Poems by Arab Women from the Jahiliyya (pre-Islamic) to the Andalusian period
Henri Matisse, Odalisque on a Turkish Sofa, 1928 I see people riding on shrieking horses Steering clouds of sparkbelching fires...
An Insult to a Doll | Innokenty Annensky, 1855 -1909
Smallest doll in the world, early 1900s “There can be such a sky, and such A play of rays, that...
Saturdays | A Poem by Petya Dubarova, 1962-79
Petya Dubarova On Saturdays I'm unappreciated - wild, flexible, and lively as a lynx. And tiredness, having turned into a...
Sonnet XVII | Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
Detail of Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1787-1793 I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose,...
Absence | Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 1902 – 1987
Carlos Drummond de Andrade I used to consider absence a lack. And I ignorantly regretted that lack. Today I have...
Ode | A poem by Arthur O’Shaughnessy, 1873
Man Ray, Les Chapeaux, 1933 We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers...