The complete online text of Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy.

These two poems by David Bromige (as well as the next selection by Al Young) were published in Summer 1970 in a special section edited by Ron Silliman and David Melnick and titled "Fifteen Young Poets of the San Francisco Bay Area." Ron...

POEM down the back the light is on so my dad, if he wakes, can see. The rain, beating down creates a kind of silence, a sound that blankets all the others -- fridge, fluoro light -- a bubble in which I work,...

Michael and Carl Lund grew up in a house with a priceless document on a hall wall: an unpublished poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams.The poem, "About a Little Girl," is slightly yellowed and is in the same frame that their mother put...

Printed part way down page 3 of the Troy Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823, it was easy to miss.Between beekeeping tips and a wedding announcement was a seasonal poem. Submitted anonymously, the poem charmed editors who published it anyway. It started like this:"'Twas the night...