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  • Poem
    By Sharon Olds
    But I love the I, steel I-beam
    that my father sold. They poured the pig iron
    into the mold, and it fed…
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    And when, in the city in which I love you,
    even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
    and I mount the…
  • Poem
    By Jorie Graham
    The blades like irises turning very fast to see you completely—steel-blue then red where the cut occurs…
  • Poem
    By Brenda Hillman
    Having stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War
    they had 30 leftover dolphins.
    An officer…
  • Poem
    By Joshua Seigal
    I don’t like similes.Every time I try to think of onemy brain feels like a vast, empty desert;my eyes…
  • Glossary Terms

    From the ancient Greek for “good voiced,” euphony in poetry refers to the pleasing harmonious arrangement of sounds in language. First used in English in the 17th century, euphony involves the use of melodious combinations of sounds, such as vowel sounds (with similar vowel sounds creating assonance), consonant sounds (with similar consonant sounds creating consonance), and the rhythm of words and syllables. Euphony is, in essence, the musicality of poetry. It often evokes positive emotions in the reader or listener and can contribute to the overall mood or atmosphere of a poem. Similarly the breaking of ongoing euphony has been used by some poets to create an experience that something has gone wrong, that the positive atmosphere of the poem has been broken.

  • Poem
    By Cameron Awkward-Rich
    I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside…
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    In a wind
    the lake's scissoring surface

    and the Sun's vernal glare
    the gulls cut to curls
    in their turns…
  • Poem

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    Wulf ond Eadwacer

    By Unknown
    Lēodum is mīnum swylce him mon lāc gife;
    willað hȳ hine āþecgan gif hē on þrēat cymeð.
    Ungelīc is ū…
  • Poem
    By Sri Chinmoy
    Ultimately everything
              Becomes boring.
    Even great miracles
              Become boring.
    Even the tremendous powers of…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole
                length of the snake is the length
     
    of my brother’s body…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones—
                is it okay not to look out this window, but…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty!
  • Poem
    By Thomas Bracken
    God of Nations at Thy feet,
    In the bonds of love we meet,
    Hear our voices, we entreat,
    God defend our free…
  • Poem
    By R. L. Swihart
    The young man says, “Alan can 
    do anything he wants”

    “Not fly,” I say

    The young man returns 
    a puzzled look…
  • Poem
    By Cornelius Eady
    I’m here
                 to tell you 
                                 an old story. 
                                 This
    Appears to be
                     my work.
                                    I live
                                    in the world,
    Walk
             the streets…
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