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Remember Remember the Twelfth of November

For that is the fast approaching (6 hrs!) date upon which Richard Wilbur will release his new work : Anterooms Check out the tenacious tetrameters of the title poem: https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/01/05/090105po_poem_wilbur

October Maples, Portland by Richard Wilbur

This was today’s poem from Davey’s.  It’s beautiful and reminds me of the Northeast, which I miss quite a bit. October Maples, Portland Richard Wilbur The leaves, though little time they have to live, Were never so unfallen as today, And seem to yield us through a rustled sieve The very light from which time […]

I’m a hopeless English major from UD

This is “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke, and it’s my favorite poem. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake […]

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