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Poets and Poems: Simon Armitage and “The Owl and the Nightingale”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Barn Owl Simon Armitage

British Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has translated the medieval poem “The Owl and the Nightingale,” and it sounds rather familiar.

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The Jacobson Center at Smith College – Making the most of Students’ Education

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Cosmos Jacobson Center Eddy

The Jacobson Center at Smith College, where poet Sara Eddy works, aims to improve teaching and learning for Smith’s students.

Filed Under: article, Creativity, English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, Writing

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman (full text)

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Read the classic story below, or check out our list of The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman characters, or read the author’s own essay on Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Want something shorter? Check out the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Summary. Or enjoy The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte […]

“Addressed to the Same” by John Keats

self portrait of the older Haydon

< Return to All John Keats Addressed to the Same Great spirits now on earth are sojourning; He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, Who on Helvellyn’s summit, wide awake, Catches his freshness from Archangel’s wing: He of the rose, the violet, the spring, The social smile, the chain for Freedom’s sake: And lo!—whose […]

“A Song of Opposites” by John Keats

a young boy sits and touches a skull with the phrase memento mori written on etching

< Return to All John Keats A Song of Opposites Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow, Lethe’s weed and Hermes’ feather; Come to-day, and come to-morrow, I do love you both together! I love to mark sad faces in fair weather; And hear a merry laugh amid the thunder; Fair and foul I love together. Meadows […]

“A Song About Myself” by John Keats

a boy and his sister sit while he writes with an ink pen

< Return to All John Keats A Song About Myself There was a naughty boy, A naughty boy was he, He would not stop at home, He could not quiet be- He took In his knapsack A book Full of vowels And a shirt With some towels, A slight cap For night cap, A hair […]

“A Party Of Lovers” by John Keats

two people sit in a cafe in Paris the woman is writing something while the man sits with his arms crossed, smoking a cigarette and looks at her

< Return to All John Keats A Party Of Lovers Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes, Nibble their toast, and cool their tea with sighs, Or else forget the purpose of the night, Forget their tea — forget their appetite. See with cross’d arms they sit — ah! happy crew, The fire is […]

“A Galloway Song” by John Keats

many people in a wedding procession come down to cross water, some take rest and take their shoes off while others cross over

< Return to All John Keats A Galloway Song Ah! ken ye what I met the day Out oure the Mountains A coming down by craggies grey An mossie fountains — A[h] goud hair’d Marie yeve I pray Ane minute’s guessing — For that I met upon the way Is past expressing. As I stood […]

By Heart: ‘California Hills in August’ by Dana Gioia

By Megan Willome 12 Comments

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Hate not heat and drought. Join Megan Willome as she learns to love her brown hills by learning a summer Dana Gioia poem By Heart.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, By Heart, Summer Poems

“A Pæan” by Edgar Allan Poe

a painting of half woman holding flowers, half skeleton tats hold sickle

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems A Pæan How shall the burial rite be read? The solemn song be sung? The requiem for the loveliest dead, That ever died so young? Her friends are gazing on her, And on her gaudy bier, And weep!—oh! to dishonor Dead beauty with a tear! They loved her […]

“In Youth I Have Known One” by Edgar Allan Poe

ceiling painting showing figured in heaven

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems In Youth I Have Known One In youth I have known one with whom the Earth In secret communing held—as he with it, In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth: Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn […]

“Dreams” by Edgar Allan Poe

drawing of a couple intertwined being pulled up by a cherub

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Dreams Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, ‘Twere better than the cold reality Of waking life, to him whose heart must be, […]

“Greek Hymn” by Edgar Allan Poe

drawing of the assassination with on lookers and people caught in the middle

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Greek Hymn Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I’ll conceal, Like those champions devoted and brave, When they plunged in the tyrant their steel, And to Athens deliverance gave. Beloved heroes! your deathless souls roam In the joy breathing isles of the blest; Where the mighty of old have […]

“The Happiest Day” by Edgar Allan Poe

painting of icarus falling to his death

< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems The Happiest Day The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas! The visions of my youth have been— But […]

Poets and Poems: Colm Tóibín and “Vinegar Hill”

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Cliffs of Moher Colm Tóibín

“Vinegar Hill” is the first book of poetry by novelist and writer Colm Tóibín, and it underscores his reputation for storytelling.

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Earth Song Book Club Announcement

By Rebecca D. Martin 6 Comments

bamboo forest

Rebecca D. Martin announces a new book club discussion of the symphonic nature poem collection edited by Sara Barkat, Earth Song.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Earth Song, Ecopoetry, Nature Poems

“Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’” by Robert Crawford

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Tree in Lake Crawford bio of Eliot

With “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,'” British poet and writer Robert Crawford completes his monumental biography of T.S. Eliot.

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Children’s Book Club: ‘The Beatryce Prophecy’ by Kate DiCamillo

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

baby feet on bunny blanket

In Kate DiCamillo’s “The Beatryce Prophecy,” our hero changes her story (with the help of a goat. Join us for Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Poet Laura: Dark Humor & Smarts in the Same Poem

By Karen Paul Holmes 3 Comments

log cabin on creek

In this month’s columns from Karen Paul Holmes, our Poet Laura invites us to write a dark humor poem using a sample Rupert Fike poem.

Filed Under: Blog, Food Poems, Funny Poems, Poet Laura, poetry prompt

Tell the Bees: A Little Chat Highlight

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

tell the bees card and balm

Peek in on an evening of poetry and beekeeping talk, with this highlight of the chat during our “Tell the Bees” event with Sara Eddy.

Filed Under: Bee Poems, nature, Poets

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