Poetry

Poetry

Reading a Fourteenth-Century Poem Together

Luis Muñoz
Poetry

Suddenly

Jorie Graham
Poetry

Inflammation

Jorie Graham

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Poetry

From the Archives

The Lost Ingredient

Anne Sexton
July 1, 1959
Marble sarcophagus with garlands ca. A.D. 200–225. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry

Garland for You

Robert Penn Warren
January 1, 1958
Floral Garlands of Nany, ca. 1050 B.C. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Closed for Good

Robert Frost
July 1, 1949
Graphic with lyres. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Poetry

Ars Poetica

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
Two hands reaching toward each other. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Poetry

Next Moment

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
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Retrospect

Toyo Suyemoto
December 1, 1946
From the Archives

Nocturnes

Robert Frost
September 1, 1946
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.
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My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
September 1, 1943
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I Could Give All to Time

Robert Frost
September 1, 1941
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The Shortest Way Home

Muriel Rukeyser
October 1, 1939