This poem is for anyone who has ever sat through a Shakespeare play and found it too long. Purgatory by…
Subway Rush Hour by Langston Hughes Mingled breath and smell so close mingled black and white so near no room…
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.…
Coming by Philip Larkin On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings,…
Here's another wonderful old chestnut: Sea Fever by John Masefield I must go down to the seas again, to the…
"Fool and scoundrel guide the State." That's true enough. In the early 1930's when this was written speeding traffic on…
Stalin’s Heirs by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass. Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the…
If you went to school in the UK anytime in the last sixty years then you will probably be familiar…
Muriel Rukeyser wrote this in 1968. Read it and tell me it doesn't feel like she is writing for this…
What an intriguing idea: Reversing time to see your younger self moving forward in time as you move backward. What…