I recently had the good fortune to catch a performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in Beijing performed by the talented international Middle Kingdom Creatives troupe. I was struck by how potent the ...

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A poem titled "A Simple Poem to Mae" ...