Barcelona ~ George Franklin I imagine you on a cold day in Barcelona, wind Lashing the spires of Sagrada Familia and the palm trees By the beach dreaming of Africa, listening To obscenities shouted by the waves. I imagine you with a leather coat And lapis earrings and a blouse almost As smooth as your […]
Reluctance —Robert Frost Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the […]
Jenny Xie’s poem “Chinatown Diptych,” performed by the poet. Part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films. Directed by Jean Coleman and produced in collaboration with 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Learn more about Xie and explore more poetry at https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/.
Nicole Sealey’s poem “Even the Gods,” performed by the poet. Part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films. Filmed at the Brooklyn Museum
Across the Swamp —Olav Hauge It is the roots from all the trees that have died out here, that’s how you can walk safely over the soft places. Roots like these keep their firmness, it’s possible they’ve lain here centuries. And there is still some dark demains of them under the moss. They are still […]
