Rain is no respecter of persons the snow doesn't give a soft white damn Whom it touches -e.e. cummings, Viva,…
The Old Year The Old Year's gone away To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day Nor…
No snow where I am at the moment but here's a poem to enjoy now and also tuck away to…
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…
I mostly associate the artist Saul Steinberg with the work he did for The New Yorker and the last time…
Lament In December December’s come and all is dead; Weep, woods, for summer far has sped And leaves rot in…
"I have too many books but I only have my shelf to blame." The pun came via Twitter. As does…
What use is poetry? .... We have poetry So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…
Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…