This is what happens when we listen to music: our brains light up. Neuroscientists have discovered that the brain's higher cognitive...

ACT I SCENE I DUKE ORSINO's palace. Twelfth Night [ Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending ] DUKE ORSINO If music...

Here and Now - Peter Balakian The day comes in strips of yellow glass over trees. When I tell you the day is a poem I’m only talking to...

‘Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.’ William Shakespeare As You Like It

In "Ars Poetica", Neruda speaks from the viewpoint of a poet with a bewildered persona. The poet is constantly between two worlds : the...

THE STRANGER In memoriam John K. Coleridge, Esq. The lithe blue pellicle-flame fluttering in my stove, the sole unquiet thing in my...

AWARENESS A Pastoral Harvesting corn with my hands, I feel their kernels, ripe with starch while their stalks cry under my hands and the...

The poetry workshop led by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi was inspiring and very relaxed with a language poem by Anne Carson called "Dave's, Lake...

Poets deal with probable impossibilities rather than impossible probabilities.

Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925 What is poetry? Is it a mosaic Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought Into a pattern? Rather glass that’s...