Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; he abandoned traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic ...

Bruce Bennett was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1940. He received a BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. Of Bennett’s work, X. J. Kennedy writes, “You’ll find balladry, villanelles, ...

the way I will love being afraid, but this is not what I want to say.

Florence Earle Coates was born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the author of several books of poetry, including Pro Patria (Philadelphia, 1917), a collection about World War I.

(Another version of “A Terre.”) To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me—brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back’s been stiff for hours, damned hours. Death never gives his ...

At loyalty and love’s command, And that was the case to carry it in.

Let some one hold the book, and ask one of the questions. The answers being all numbered, the girl or boy who is questioned chooses a number, and the person who holds the book reads the answer to ...

Jealousy. Whispered weather reports. The lure of the land so strong it prompts gossip: we chatter like small birds at the edge of the ocean gray, foaming. Now sand under sand hides the buried world, ...

cd’s, having drinks among the cattle stalls.