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3 days ago · In the bilingual book My Name is Gabriela/Me llamo Gabriela , Mônica Brown tells the fascinating story of Chilean Gabriela Mistral, who chose what she wanted to be called “porque [le] gusta cómo suena.”. Gabriela Mistral, chosen as the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Latin American person ...
4 days ago · Emily Dickinson (2414 poems) 2. Madison Julius Cawein (1231 poems) 3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1136 poems) 4. William Wordsworth (1016 poems) 5. Robert Burns (986 poems) 6. Edgar Albert Guest (945 poems) 7. Thomas Moore (849 poems) 8. Robert Service (831 poems)
3 days ago · Sus primeros versos, recogidos en 1922 en un volumen titulado DESOLACIÓN, reflejan el sentimiento por un amor trágico y frustrado, emoción que sublimaría en una ternura honda y patética dirigida...
4 days ago · Below, we select and introduce some of Gibran’s best, and best-known, poems, many of them shorter pieces from The Prophet which can be read in isolation. 1. ‘ On Love ’. When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound ...
4 days ago · This voice—elaborate, exuberant, self-aware, fun—will go on to dominate the poem. And there is an extremely good reason for this: the poem is set in a moment of sharing and friendship, so this voice helps us to feel the joy of that time, and to imagine that we are hearing the happy conversation the two friends shared.
3 days ago · Calling all poets: Send your work to Poetry Town. Whether sonnets, sestinas, haiku, free verse, blank verse, there's lots of poetry in Worcester's universe. Worcester Magazine is looking for the best original poems by Worcester-area poets for our regular feature, Poetry Town, which appears each week in our print edition, out each Friday in the ...
2 days ago · These three poems by Rachel Barton use the sestina and abecedarian as a path to discovery: buried feelings, the search for wisdom, and the liminal space of dawn… by: Rachel Barton. Song for Eos Sometimes there’s nothing to catch it. Precious essence slips through a fissure in the psyche like a dream through the shimmering crack of dawn.
