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Poet and editor Kathleen Tankersley Young (1902–1933) was born in rural West Texas.   Question for Your Question For E.B. The leaf is stripped from the tree, Crisp gold at the edges With brown veins, now powerless Against the frightening wind. We took from the dark the terrible speeches, Syllables into sentences, The steep sea… (συνέχεια…)

  Frank Bidart (b. 1939) is a poet from Bakersfield, California.   Song You know that it is there, lair where the bear ceases for a time even to exist. Crawl in. You have at last killed enough and eaten enough to be fat enough to cease for a time to exist. Crawl in. It… (συνέχεια…)

Hughes Mearns (1875–1965) was an American educator and poet. Antigonish is a town in Nova Scotia, Canada.   Antigonish / I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… When I came home last… (συνέχεια…)

David Wagoner (1926-2021) was an American poet, novelist and educator born in Massillon, Ohio, and raised in Whiting, Indiana.   This is a Wonderful Poem Come at it carefully, don’t trust it, that isn’t its right name, It’s wearing stolen rags, it’s never been washed, its breath Would look moss-green if it were really breathing,… (συνέχεια…)

Ada Limón (b. 1976) grew up in Sonoma, California. She became the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States in July 2022. She is the host of the acclaimed podcast The Slowdown and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.   The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual When you come, bring your brown- ness… (συνέχεια…)

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator born in Depew, NY. She grew up in Buffalo, NY.   won’t you celebrate with me won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see… (συνέχεια…)

Poet, essayist, and short story writer Tess Gallagher was born in 1943 in Port Angeles, Washington, to a logging family.   Refusing Silence Heartbeat trembling your kingdom of leaves near the ceremony of water, I never insisted on you. I admit I delayed. I was the Empress of Delay. But it can’t be put off… (συνέχεια…)

Eileen Myles (b. 1949) is a poet from Cambridge, Massachusetts.   A Little Bit It’s a little bit true that the hole in my jacket pocket the breast pocket yeah all relaxed has a hole & pens keep slipping through one’s in the lining but this one perched now it’s a writing bird silly black… (συνέχεια…)

Melissa Ginsburg grew up in Houston, Texas, and she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi.   Tigers for Erik Lemke (1979-2012) 1. A hummingbird flies into a window that looks like the sky. Everything around here looks like the sky. The sky looks tiger striped. They call that kind… (συνέχεια…)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was born on Long Island, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.   I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as… (συνέχεια…)

Jay Parini (b. 1948)  is an American writer and academic from Pittston, Pennsylvania.   Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County The maples sweat now, out of season. Buds pop eyes in wintry bushes as the birds arrive, not having checked the calendars or clocks. They scramble in the frost for seeds, while underground a sobbing… (συνέχεια…)

Jonathan Galassi (b. 1949) is an American poet, translator and publishing executive from Seattle, Washington.   North of Childhood FOR B. Somewhere ahead I see you watching something out your window, what I don’t know. You’re tall, not on your tiptoes, green, no longer yellow, no longer little, little one, but the changeless changing seasons… (συνέχεια…)

Jack Prelutsky (b. 1940) is a children’s poet from Brooklyn, New York. This poem is the perfect way to learn about alliteration (παρήχηση) and have a smile on everyone’s face instantly. Prelutsky crafts the perfect poem of playful words and creative combinations.   Bleezer’s Ice Cream I am Ebenezer Bleezer, I run BLEEZER’S ICE CREAM STORE,… (συνέχεια…)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966) was a female African American poet and playwright from Atlanta, Georgia.   My Little Dreams I’m folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight. For Time’s deft fingers scroll my brow With fell relentless art— I’m folding up my little… (συνέχεια…)

Frank Horne (1899-1974) was a Black optometrist, public administrator and poet from Brooklyn, New York.   Immortality To be forever young and ride like a tipsy Triton on the crest of a wave that is just forever breaking…. Days—an eternal dawning heralded with the fanfare of sun, Nights—a blaze of glory the swishing tail of… (συνέχεια…)