April 26, 2010
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. […]
April 25, 2010
Benjamin Bolger (34) has earned degrees at well-known universities and claims that by working many hours, keeping down expenses, and not socializing too much he achieved his educational goals while accruing minimal debts. Read his story. Shira S., RA
April 25, 2010
Love Sonnet XIV by Pablo Neruda I don’t have time enough to celebrate your hair. One by one I should detail your hairs and praise them. Other lovers want to live with particular eyes; I only want to be your stylist. In Italy the call you Medusa, because of the high bristling light of your […]
April 24, 2010
Selected haiku by Basho Seeing the new year’s first flowers, I’ll live seventy- five years longer
April 23, 2010
Sonnet XXVII by William Shakespeare WEARY with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired: For then my thoughts, from far where I abide, Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep […]
April 22, 2010
Next time you’re feeling blue about library fines, think about books overdue for a couple of hundred years! A NYC library found that 2 missing volumes are checked out to the first president. Read here.
April 22, 2010
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car by Dan Pagis here in this carload I am eve with abel my son if you see my other son cain son of man tell him i Yom Hashoah, the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, took place on April 11th this year. This poem was selected by Jeff B. […]
April 22, 2010
If after waking this morning you noticed a palpable buzz in the air, fear not for your senses do not deceive you and your coffee is not to blame. Today is simply a big day. As you are almost certainly aware after three weeks of non-stop poetic feasting, National Poetry Month is still going strong. […]
April 21, 2010
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches […]
April 20, 2010
If you’re looking so add some spice to your winter reads, check out what the Evanston Ten Thousand Villages book club is reading on the first Monday of every month! We kicked March off with a compelling story of an indigenous Guatemalan woman, “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala” by Rigoberta Menchu, E. Burgos-Debray. In […]
