Sharper than a scapel, more soothing than a balm, more supportive than a cast,
poetry, as medicine, is the way through.
Ode, On Intimations Of Immortality by William Wordsworth I There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To […]
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This Much I Do Remember It was after dinner. You were talking to me across the table about something or other, a greyhound
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Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
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Japan Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect
Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden
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Consolation How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cruise
Child Development As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversation,
by Billy Collins ‘The History Teacher By Billy Collins Trying to protect his students’ innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just
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Ulysses – such great empathy and inspiration! Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d
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