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Walter Whitman, carpenter, journalist, temperance man, and opera buff, announced himself as the first modern American poet when he hurled 'barbaric yawps' over the roofs of his unsuspecting countrymen. He [...]

SHOES I. Boots above all. Slack-skinned throats, cracked deeply enough anything gets in, stays, the sluice of years stains a good gumshoe reads like destiny, those nubby rubber bottoms mostly [...]

COMING DOWN IN OHIO I.M. Bill Matthews My uniform hung Air Force blue, way uncool, when first we met, but Italian silks fit you sleek as a summer shower. Tall [...]

There is no need of maps now, the interstate spooling south of Roethke's country gone sour: smokestacks thick as the risen fists of robber barons, the burly smudge of green [...]

The convent in Via Marcantonio Colonna was built in 1930. My aunt, who once worked in the family firm, joined the Carmelites after the War. In 1946 she went inside. [...]

For J., M.J., M. 1 'Have mercy!' you cry in the mourner's line, three beauties you used to dream of show up, same breasts, same ankles, same cheerful 'Hi!' like [...]

When I come here it is in dawnchill and the sweet gold mound of wood chips holds still, not growing. I wear the thin-soled hunting boots L.L.Bean sells, blue work [...]

Poet Walt Whitman's 1871 lyric 'Sparkles from the Wheel' is examined. The poem highlights the paced way in which Whitman does all his work and brings out the buoyant and raw excitement, which makes draw the breath and watch.

AGAINST BLOSSOMS Why not say I miss my father, face above the oil-stained tools, medals there behind his shorts, same ties worn year after year, the news photo, no glasses, [...]

The Summer 1975 issue was devoted to the topic 'Talking American Poetry'; it was a rich conversation, drawing works from such varied writers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael Davidson, Nikki [...]

Along the two-lane asphalt that winds to the house where my mother is dying, they dot the sky. Always alone, even the littlest, heads untucked, eyes calibrating like laser-beams, bodies [...]

Each employee at The Dallas Morning News is evaluated on his or her anniversary. As part of that process sports staffers are asked to evaluate the sports section. This past [...]