The Main and the Robert Crown Branches of EPL will be closed Dec. 24th & Dec. 25th. We will reopen Dec. 26th for regular library hours.
April 19, 2013
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch 1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden beams were so inviting. . 2 We laughed at the hollyhocks together […]
April 18, 2013
Something Missing by Shel Silverstein I remember I put on my socks, I remember I put on my shoes. I remember I put on my tie That was painted In beautiful purples and blues. I remember I put on my coat, To look perfectly grand at the dance, Yet I feel there is something I […]
April 17, 2013
One Song by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured . into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing, one song.
April 16, 2013
Everything the Power of the World Does is Done in a Circle by Black Elk Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, […]
April 15, 2013
“There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves
April 15, 2013
Family by Josephine Miles When you swim in the surf off Seal Rocks, and your family Sits in the sand Eating potato salad, and the undertow Comes which takes you out away down To loss of breath loss of play and the power of play Holler, say Help, help, help. Hello, they will say, Come […]
April 14, 2013
Spleen by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Norman R. Shapiro) When, on our groaning, ennui-ridden soul, The heavens hang low, weigh like a lid, pressed tight; When, circling the horizon like a bowl, They pour a daylight sad as blackest night; . When earth turns dungeon dank, where Hope, much like A bat, entrapped, in desperation […]
April 13, 2013
Haiku inspired by Machiavelli’s The Prince by David M. Bader What I learned at court: Being more feared than loved — good. Getting poisoned — bad. . This poem was selected by Olivia M. (Readers’ Services) Poetry Copyright Notice
April 12, 2013
Pachyderm by Sherman Alexie 1. Sheldon decided he was an elephant. . 2. Everywhere he went, he wore a gray t-shirt, gray sweat pants, and gray basketball shoes. . 3. He also carried a brass trumpet that he’d painted white. . 4. Sometimes he used that trumpet as a tusk. . […]
April 11, 2013
Disobedience by A.A. Milne James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree Took great Care of his Mother Though he was only three. James James Said to his Mother, “Mother,” he said, said he; “You must never go down to the end of the town, if you don’t go down with me.”
