Mock Orange, By Louise Glück

In “Mock Orange” the female flesh interferes with the speaker’s search for a desired full presence or wholeness.

The Bowmen, By Arthur Machen

Faced with inevitable death and defeat in WWI, a battalion of English soldiers is saved by the mysterious and miraculous.

this poem was originally published in The New Yorker in 1976. Later that same year, Bishop included the poem in her book Geography III.

Leah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.

Walter de la Mare [1873-1956] is one of England’s greatest poets and a famous writer especially for children.

Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

A powerful poem by one of America’s most profound modern writers.

John Donne’s poetry is notable for its eroticism and sometimes cynical worldview, as well as for its striking imagery.

Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the “Father of the Japanese short story.”

Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.