“House and Home” by Ernest Hilbert in Horizon Review
"Horizon Review takes its name and its inspiration from Horizon, the magazine Cyril Connolly ran from the outbreak of the War in 1939 until it closed in 1949. Horizon was very much… Read More
“Balloon Man” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson teaches in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University and is an editor of Front Porch Republic (frontporchrepublic.com). He has published many essays, poems, and… Read More
“A Change of Season” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More
“Couple” by Justin Quinn
Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. Since 1995 he has taught American literature at the Charles University, Prague. He has published three books of criticism,… Read More
“Nibble Song” by J.H. Prynne
"The poetry of J. H. Prynne is both obscure and difficult; qualities tolerated in canonical and foreign writers (Blake, Mallarmé, Celan, late Beckett), but treated with enormous resentment and suspicion in contemporary… Read More
“Palm” by Laura Kasischke
Laura Kasischke's work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Southern Review, Iowa Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son,… Read More
“Darkness” by George Gordon, Lord Byron
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." - Lady Caroline Lamb… Read More
“Laryngitis Lights” by Paul Siegell
"I haven’t had this much fun reading a book of poems in a long time. Paul Siegell’s fast-paced rave-on-the-page jambandbootleg follows a loose narrative in which the speaker and his friends travel… Read More
“Curriculum Vitae” by Samuel Menashe
"The public career of Samuel Menashe demonstrates how a serious poet of singular talent, power, and originality can be utterly ignored in our literary culture. There are, of course, several reasons for… Read More
“Sepsis” by C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of The… Read More
“Sci-Fi” by Tracy K. Smith
"We read poems because they change us, and our reasons for writing them hover around that same fact. A poem, a good poem, speaks to and from a place that belongs to… Read More
“Sonnet 66” by William Shakespeare
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry . . .… Read More
“In the great snowfall before the bomb” by Lorine Niedecker
"It's hard to write about Lorine Niedecker without using the terms that have, in part, kept her in critical obscurity. Her poems are plain styled and folk driven, wryly in love with… Read More
“The Death of a Wasp” by Quincy Lehr
Quincy R. Lehr was raised in Norman, Oklahoma and presently lives in Brooklyn, having returned to the U.S. after two years in Ireland. His work has appeared in print and online venues… Read More
“Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri” by Mona Van Duyn
"Mona Van Duyn has assembled, in a language at once beautiful and exact, one of the most convincing bodies of work in our poetry." - Alfred Corn… Read More
“Sentence” by Witter Bynner
“Witter Bynner, you’re going to have a bitter winter.” - a "badly soused" Hart Crane… Read More
“27,000 Miles” by Albert Goldbarth
"Half of Goldbarth's imagination . . . is what is usually called religious. Goldbarth's tenderness toward the mystical does not, however, vitiate his enormous curiosity, or the momentum of his zest, or… Read More
“Drum” by Philip Levine
"I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought… Read More
“Poem for Happiness” by Matthew Zapruder
"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments." - Library Journal… Read More
“Confusion . . . Distaste . . . Impatience . . . Inadequacy . . . Ambivalence . . . . Television”: Notes on Poetry
Thanks to Casey for sending this one in. … Read More
“While Reading the Revelation of St. John the Divine, I Turn on the Television” by Garrick Davis
Garrick Davis is an American poet and critic. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1971. He served as the literary specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington,… Read More
“Leviathan” by W.S. Merwin
"Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?" - Job 41:1, KJV… Read More
“Questions for Leonardo” by Malinda Miller
Malinda C. Miller has served as an editor of Many Mountains Moving, and her poetry has appeared in Improv, Open Windows III, and In the Named World, and Poems from the Poetry… Read More
“Summer Stars” by Carl Sandburg
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” - Carl Sandburg… Read More
“A Lesson for This Sunday” by Derek Walcott
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself." - Derek Walcott … Read More
“For Once, Then, Something” by Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost… Read More
“A Green Crab’s Shell” by Mark Doty
"Doty's fourth collection, coming after the 1993 National Book Critics' Circle award-winning My Alexandria, is anchored in the lush and pressing world of loss. He begins calmly with sensually descriptive poems that… Read More
“The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider” by Ovid, translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al, from Book the Sixth of Metamorphoses
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would… Read More