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This is a selection of poems, prose, and other beans of inspiration collected for the roasting. If you so desire, come on in and browse the shelves -- and perhaps you'll find a brew of words to spark a creative thought or two! The flavoring is up to you.
 
Poetry
• Ancient Theories by Nick Lantz
• Crossings by Ravi Shankar
• The Heart of a Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
• The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland
• Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson
• Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
• Fable by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glόck
• The Woman I Love by Hafiz
• Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
• Summer Holiday by Robinson Jeffers
• Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
• To Autumn by John Keats
• Aubade: Lake Erie by Thomas Merton
• On the Subject of Poetry by W. S. Merwin
• Take the I Out by Sharon Olds
• Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
• I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
• What Was Told, That by Jalalu'l-din Rumi
• Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• To the Moon [fragment] by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] by William Shakespeare
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
• Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
• A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman
• Unfolded Out of the Folds by Walt Whitman
• The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• A Prayer for my Daughter by W. B. Yeats
 
Prose
• In Praise of Abstraction: Moving Beyond Concrete Imagery by Ravi Shankar
• Some Reflections on Eliot’s "Reflections on Vers Libre": on Verse and Free Verse by Rachel Wetzsteon
• The Very Act of Telling: Sharon Olds and Writing Narrative Poetry by Aaron Smith
• Video: "Lady Lazarus" and the Received Form by Frank Bidart
• Video: The Miraculous Thing To Do by Louise Glόck
• Video: Learning Your Own Language by W. S. Merwin
• Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot
• The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Great Figure: On Figurative Language by D. A. Powell
• "Tell All the Truth but tell it slant": First-Person Usage in Poetry by Cate Marvin
• Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art
• Poetry Landmark: Robinson Jeffers's Tor House in Carmel, CA
 
Poets
• Robinson Jeffers
• Mary Oliver
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