The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices…
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…
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…
Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…
Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…
There's a comfort in routines and familiar sounds. Some towns have a noon whistle. If you've lived near a school…
Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…
March 25th marks the anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire. In Shirt Robert Pinsky weaves in the Triangle Factory…