Middlebury seeks poet laureate
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The Middlebury Ad Hoc Poet Laureate Committee is accepting applications from poets interested in serving as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Middlebury from ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 22, 2017
#MIDDLEBURY
Poetry
Marianne Moore
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – Jan. 24, 2015
Sonnet to Winter
Emily Chubbuck Judson
Thy brow is grit, thy robe with gems inwove;
And palaces of frost-work, on the eye,
Flash out, and gleam in every gorgeous dye,
The pencil, dipped ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-22-2014
Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets
Amendment
Christina Davis
The love of each of us
for some of us,
of some of us
for all of us –
and ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-21-2014
Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets
The Wind Sleepers
H.D.
Whiter
than the crust
left by the tide,
we are stung by the hurled sand
and the broken ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-20-2014
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If You Should Tire of Loving Me
Margaret Widdemer
If you should tire of loving me
Some one of our far days,
Oh, ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-19-2014
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Fruit Cocktail in Light Syrup
Amy Gerstler
Rocket-shaped popsicles that dyed your lips blue
were popular ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-18-14
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from “Crow”
Abraham Smith
in his wide wide palm the reigns loose as a foundering
pulse the sky ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-17-2014
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Put Down that TV Tray
Sina Queyras
All I ever wanted was that living room, Sunday evening, chicken
In the ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-15-2014
Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets
Lion Felling a Bull
Robyn Schiff
I came upon a fragment, one
anterior lion felling
one anterior bull. I ... Continue Reading →
