“Walking Alone”
Lawrence Raab

Where the wild poem is a substitute
For the woman one loves or ought to love,
One wild rhapsody a fake for another.Wallace Stevens ( Read more... )

"Hope"
Langston Hughes

Sometimes when I'm lonely,
Don't know why,
Keep thinkin' I won't be lonely,
By and by.

On this day in...
2011: "In A Strange City" by Adam Zagajewski
2010: "Letter" by Leonard Cohen
2009: Weekend, no poem
2008: Weekend, no poem

If you were to get a literary/poetry tattoo, what would it be and why?

Sweetheart, put down ( Read more... )

"Boston"
Aaron Smith

I've been meaning to tell you how the sky is pink here sometimes like the roof of a mouth that's about to chomp down on the crooked steel teeth of the city, I remember the desperate things we did and that I stumble ( Read more... )

"Sunday"
Lawrence Raab

So that’s life, then: things as they are?
-Wallace StevensOnce there was music that could tear ( Read more... )

"Marriage"
Lawrence Raab

Years later they find themselves talking   
about chances, moments when their lives   
might have swerved off
for the smallest reason.
                                     What if
I hadn’t phoned, he says, that morning?   
What if you’d been out,
as you were when I tried three times   
the night before?
                           Then ( Read more... )

"Why It Often Rains in the Movies ( Read more... )

"Attack of the Crab Monsters ( Read more... )