12 Haiku Poems by Jack Kerouac
12 Haiku Poems In the sunthe butterfly wingsLike a church window Empty baseball fielda robinhops along the bench The windmillsof Oklahoma lookin every direction Train on the horizon – my window rattles… Continue Reading
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams… Continue Reading
My Favorite Books — a list by Joan Didion
The late writer and journalist Joan Didion was easily one of the finest wordsmiths of her era—inspiring the next generation as well. Author Zadie Smith remembers encountering Didion’s writing for the first time. She remarked,… Continue Reading
‘And this word, this paper written’ by Pablo Neruda
'And this word, this paper written' And this word, this paper writtenby the thousand hands of a single handdoes not rest in you, does not serve for dreams.It falls to the earth: there it continues.… Continue Reading
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the… Continue Reading