Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the year will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, at Fozzie's Smokin' Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. "A poetry slam is a competitive art ...
The Spring Lion growls and roars. The Spring Lamb smiles sweetly outdoors. Outside the winds are full of bluster and blow. Above the sun feels warm, both high and low. Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday are ...
Yeghishe Charents’ 129th anniversary falls on March 13. His poetry, prose, opinions and persona have accompanied us for more than a century. His lines pulsate and vibrate: obstinate, challenging, ...
At seventeen, William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was already at work on the poem we all used to know, from our old high-school American-literature textbooks, as “Thanatopsis.” We know this poem as ...