I found this poem by accident one spring a few years ago. You should read it. Here.
Category: required reading
Required Reading: The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Not that I’m measuring my life out in coffee-spoons or anything, but, for context, this was posted in 2015:
Prufrock turns 100 this year, T.S. Eliot 122. Read it here. Read it now.
Required Reading: “At the Dam” by Joan Didion
here.
Required Reading: “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” by James Baldwin
here.
Stanley Fish: “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One.”
Really good. Various places.