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  101 Great American Poems

  The American Poetry & Literacy...

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  "101 Great American Poems" is a thoughtfully curated anthology that brings together a diverse collection of classic American poetry. Spanning over two centuries, the book features works from some of the nation's most celebrated poets, including Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes. Each poem has been carefully selected to represent the richness and variety of American poetic expression, capturing themes of nature, love, identity, and the human experience. This accessible volume serves as both an introduction to American poetry for newcomers and a treasured collection for enthusiasts, making it an essential addition to any literary library.

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  Primordial - Poems

  Mai Der Vang

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  Mai Der Vang's poetry—lyrically insistent and visually compelling—constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Primordial is a crucial turn to the ecological and generational impact of violence, a powerful and rousing meditation on climate, origin, and fate. 
   
   
   
  With profound and attentive care, Vang addresses the plight of the saola, an extremely rare and critically endangered animal native to the Annamite Mountains in Laos and Vietnam. Remarkably, the saola has only been known to the outside world since 1992, and sightings are so rare that it has now been more than a decade since the last known image of one was captured in a camera trap photo in 2013. 
   
   
   
  Primordial examines the saola's relationship to Hmong refugee identity and cosmology and a shared sense of exile, precarity, privacy, and survival. Can a war-torn landscape and memory provide sanctuary, and what are the consequences for our climate, our origins, our ability to belong to a homeland? Written during a difficult pregnancy and postpartum period, Vang's poems are urgent stays against extinction.

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  Asphyxia - The Story of a Life...

  Thomas Tomazo Pagonis

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Asphyxia is a hauntingly lyrical novel that unfolds like a cinematic screenplay in parenthetical time and conditional mood. Told through the voice of Nefeli—a young woman observing her life on a mental screen—this work blurs the boundaries between memory, myth, narration, and madness. Set in a literary universe where authors are tyrants, muses are merciless, and reality is often just a rumour, the story follows Nefeli’s metaphysical descent into guilt, obsession, and poetic hallucination. 
  Through the echo of voices—narrators, poets, and ghosts—the book explores the invisible lives of the mentally fragile, those who vanish quietly between diagnoses and metaphors. With a cast of characters both archetypal and painfully human, Asphyxia is not a love story, nor a murder mystery, though it flirts with both. It is a philosophical narrative about stories themselves: who writes them, who performs them, and who suffers them. 
  Written by Tomazo Pagonis and originally crafted in Greek, this audiobook has been translated into rich British English by Marilu Pagoni. It is recommended for lovers of experimental fiction, metafictional narrative, and those who sense their own lives unfolding in parentheses.

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  Poems for Honeymooners - Love...

  W B Yeats

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  Honeymoons are a relatively modern concept in the western world, dating from the 19th Century and have since become a multi-billion dollar industry turning the beginning of wedded bliss into a smorgsboard of ‘must have this’ and ‘must do that’.   
   
  However, celebrating a marriage is something we perhaps all feel should be a more intimate occasion.  After all this part of the journey is possibly unique as well as universal and timeless.  Sex, possibly for the first time, is now an expression of the wedded state, cementing and reframing the relationship as a new couple.   
   
  Within the lines of this volume are perfect poems for those on such a journey, whether it a romantic holiday setting or relaxed at home as our classic poets revel in the sensual, the sexy and above all the love for that very special chosen person in our lives.   Our verse includes those from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, W B Yeats, Khalil Gibran, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and many more. 
   
  01 - Poetry for Honeymooners - An Introduction 
  02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  03 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  04 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  05 - I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  06 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 
  07 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  08 - Nuptial Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  09 - The Sunne Rising by John Donne 
  10 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 
  11 - My Delight and Your Delight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  12 - The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 
  13 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 
  14 - A Nuptial Verse to Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy by Robert Herrick 
  15 - The Bride by Laurence Hope aka Violet Nicholson 
  02 - Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  17 - Her Breast is Fit For Pearls by Emily Dickinson 
  18 -  Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  19 - The Flea by John Donne 
  20 - To Celia by Ben Jonson 
  21 - She Lay Naked All in Bed - Anonymous 
  22 - Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 
  23 - Amores - Book I Elegy V - Corinna in an Afternoon by Ovid 
  24 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin Wu Zao 
  25 - The Kiss by Charlotte Dacre 
  26 - That Kiss By Daniel Sheehan 
  27 - The First Kiss Of Love by Lord Byron 
  28 - First Love by John Clare 
  29 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  30 - Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  31 - Sonnet IV - Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  32 - Love is Enough by William Morris 
  33 - Lips and Eyes by Thomas Carew 
  34 - She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron 
  35 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  36 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  37 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
  38 - Beauty That is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
  39 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  40 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  41 - A Bridal Song by John Ford 
  42 - Wedded by Isaac Rosenberg 
  43 - To a Husband by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  44  - On Marriage by Khalil Gibran 
  45 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  46 - Unending Love by Tagore 
  47 - Fidelity by D H Lawrence 
  48 - June, a Tale by William Cowper 
  49 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear 
  50 - An Extract of the Wife's Will by Charlotte Bronte 
  51 - How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  52 - Terminus by Edith Wharton 
  53 - The Good Morrow by John Donne 
  54 - If Thou Must Love Me Let It Be For Nought by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  Poets on Poetry - The most...

  Matthew Arnold, Sarojini Naidu,...

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  Who has not tried to write a poem?  The poetic form of words seems to be rather easy.  In its basic form, which we learn as children, the rhyming couplet is, in a child’s written and spoken words, pure joy - success!  In the hands of a Shakespeare it is magnificent with a reach and understanding that the rest of us enjoy but are far from even attempting.    
   
  As we listen to various poetic forms, schools and movements we can only react with wonder at how these innocent words are assembled to create symphonies of ideas, wonder and revelation.  The emotions they seek to invoke can be anything from happiness to sadness, from love to revulsion. 
   
  Arnold, Stevens, Keats, Akhmatova, Browning, Herrick, Hood, Killigrew are but a few of the roll-call of wordsmiths who with mere words create ravenous beauty that reveals tender lines and sensitive verse on how and why they are who they are. 
   
  01 - Poets on Poetry - An Introduction 
  02 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova 
  03 - Of My Poems by Thomas MacDonagh 
  04 - An Apology For Her Poetry by Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish 
  05 - Sonnet 76 - Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride by William Shakespeare 
  06 - The Austerity of Poetry by Matthew Arnold 
  07 - Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens 
  08 - Poetry by Claude McKay 
  09 - The Poetry of Keats by George Meredith 
  10 - Future Poetry by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Sonnet 17 - Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come by William Shakespeare 
  12 - Poetic Eggs by Ezra Pound 
  13 - Poem by William Carlos Williams 
  14 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
  15 - Ode on the Poetical Character by William Collins 
  16 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger 
  17 - A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem by Charles Sackville, Earl Of Dorset 
  18 - The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain by Wallace Stevens 
  19 - The Poet and the Poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  20 - Of English Verse by Edmund Waller 
  21 - Love, The Soul of Poetry by Anne Killigrew 
  22 - Why, If All Poets Crown Their Love with Verse by Emily Hickey 
  23 - Verse Making Was the Least of My Virtues by Robert Browning 
  24 - The Poet's Love-Song by Sarojini Naidu 
  25 - A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn 
  26 - Not Every Day Fit for Verse by Robert Herrick 
  27 - On the Poetic Muse by George Moses Horton 
  28 - Sonnet - Written in Keats by Thomas Hood 
  29 - Sonnet 86 -Was It the Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse by William Shakespeare 
  30 - Song in Imitation of Shakespeare by James Beattie 
  31 - The High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens 
  32 - Poetry is a Destructive Force by Wallace Stevens 
  33 - To My Most Dearly Loved Friend Henry Reynolds Esquire of Poets and Poesie by Michael Drayton 
  34 - His Poetry His Pillar by Robert Herrick 
  35 - To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses by Robert Herrick 
  36 - Poem for the End by Ivor Gurney

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  White Terror Black Trauma -...

  Philip C. Kolin

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  The 61 poems in White Terror Black Trauma concentrate on some of the most traumatic events in Black history from colonial to contemporary times, from the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 to Black revolts, Civil War atrocities, incalculable lynchings, the Tulsa massacre, the brave sacrifices of Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, the heroes of school desegregation, the murders of Emmet Till, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols. And so many other Black tragedies.  
   
   
  Each poem here carries a brief head note identifying the person, place, time, or event that addresses the historical context of the poem. Some poems are written in a his/her recollection of the historical event. Above all, each poem highlights the topography of Black trauma, be that a Civil War fort, a lynching tree, a prison, a school, an island, a ghetto, a river, a national monument, a church, or city street. These resistance poems are chronicles, laments, petitions, heroic recollections about racial attacks on Black people in America.

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