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Most of us drive like crazy
Various Authors 10:30 a.m., Jan. 16
Poetry
Bright Lord and Bad Guys
Award-winning poetry translator shares two of her own poems
Bright Lord (there are muscles everywhere) I am tapping the pulse of the faucet water and winding a string of light from the rain gutter I’m pressing the window glass which presumes tension between inner ...
Three poems for the New Year
Mild is the Parting Year, To Youth, The Appeal
Mild Is the Parting Year Mild is the parting year, and sweet The odour of the falling spray; Life passes on more rudely fleet, And balmless is its closing day. I wait its close, I ...
A poem to finish off the year from England’s poet laureate
Known for his version of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” fairytale
Ode Written on the First of January Come melancholy Moralizer—come! Gather with me the dark and wintry wreath; With me engarland now The SEPULCHRE OF TIME! Come Moralizer to the funeral song! I pour the ...
Christmas Treasures
Known as the “poet of childhood”
Christmas Treasures I count my treasures o’er with care.— The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A little lock of golden hair. Long years ago this holy time, My little ...
Scottish poet admired by T.S. Eliot
Modernist Edwin Muir had plain style with vivid imagery
Two poems for winter The Late Swallow Leave, leave your well-loved nest, Late swallow, and fly away. Here is no rest For hollowing heart and wearying wing. Your comrades all have flown To seek their ...
Emily Dickinson’s literary mentor
Though more conventional, Thomas Higginson’s poetry demonstrated the same eye for poetic detail and literary value
The Snowing of the Pines Softer than silence, stiller than still air, Float down from high pine boughs the slender leaves. The forest floor its annual boon receives That comes like snowfall, tireless, tranquil, fair. ...
A sentry hardly waking
Ivor Gurney’s plain style reflected the common view of life during wartime
Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. ...
To shoe the hoofs of death
Isaac Rosenberg’s work remains vivid and praised
Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. ...
In honor of the fallen
Roman Catholic poet shares wit of G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc
Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. ...
Words of warfare from the trenches
Wilfred Owen was influenced in large part by his friend and fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon
Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. ...
Suicide in the trenches
English poet and decorated officer ponders war
Ed. Note: November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of World War I. The San Diego Reader will devote this month’s poetry columns to the poets who wrote about their experiences of that war. ...
