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Banned for a reason.  from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Banned for a reason. 

from Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal

Happy Banned Book Week, Walt.

Happy Banned Book Week, Walt.

(Source: whitmanarchive.org)

Lustra by Ezra Pound. All of it.

Lustra by Ezra Pound. All of it.

jenbenka: at the end, love. or this by laura riding jackson published in “The Poems of Laura Riding” by Persea Books

jenbenka:

at the end, love. or this by laura riding jackson

published in “The Poems of Laura Riding” by Persea Books

92y: Portraits from Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y’s 2012/13 Season  How many can you identify? Head over to our Facebook page to try your hand. 

92y:

Portraits from Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y’s 2012/13 Season 

How many can you identify? Head over to our Facebook page to try your hand. 

(via 92y)

millionsmillions: Congratulations to the five young writers named to the inaugural class of the National Student Poets Program! [Image via AYAW]

millionsmillions:

Congratulations to the five young writers named to the inaugural class of the National Student Poets Program!

[Image via AYAW]

Why do you shiver there
Between the white river and the road?
You are not cold,
With the sun light dreaming about you;
And yet you lift your pliant supplicating arms as though
To draw clouds from the sky to hide your slenderness.

You are a young girl
Trembling in the throes of ecstatic modesty,
A white objective girl
Whose clothing has been forcibly taken away from her.

“A Poplar” by William Faulkner. Yes, he wrote poetry.
jenbenka: swarming and taking and leaving. more eigner

jenbenka:

swarming and taking and leaving. more eigner

Today’s Poem-A-Day by Ben Mirov — is also a video.

Paul Valéry, snake, and key.