Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races.

Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Bohdan Ihor Antonych. The remarkable Ukrainian poet and literary critic Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-1937) lived for only a brief 28 years. Originally from the mountainous Lemko region in Poland, where a variant of Ukrainian is spoken, he was home-schooled for the first eleven years of his life until 1920 when he entered the Queen Sophia State Gymnasium in Syanok, which he completed eight years later. Antonych then matriculated at Lviv University. Lviv is the cultural center of Western Ukraine...

An avid reader of English-language poets such as William Carlos Williams and Stanley Kunitz, Ilchenko is one of the best Ukrainian poets writing in free verse today. His poetry is associative, flitting, and fragmentary. At times he does not form complete sentences in his poems and links words together into phrases before shifting into another thought or idea. The language of his poetry has a tendency to collapse into itself, often forcing the reader to reevaluate a word or line, to reread a p...

'Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?' asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: 'Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, like hidden streams, silently to the sea of the life of the nations, young man!' This quotation from the most famous p...

'This lecture premiered at The Louvre auditorium as part of FIAC’s public programs in October, 2017. To give it, I loaded the talk into a teleprompter program on my laptop. The linebreaks in the piece are a result of the way the teleprompter program broke them up in order to facilitate the reading of the work. Although I have never written lineated verse, I love the idea that a computer lineated the verse for me. This lecture, then, reads an awful lot like the way I talk, but it is truly no...

May describes the magical journey of adolescence against

the background of Holland’s flowery dunescapes. In brush strokes of wonder-filled impressions a stunningly unspoiled girl, May, explores the promise of springtime and the intense spiritual life of youth. However, the cycle of life always moves on, and as May matures and returns to earth, she finds it readying for summer.

When Herman Gorter published May (Mei) in 1889, this spontaneous and vibrant epic poem was immediately recognized

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'A Collection of Emotions - short poetry written at night' is exactly that: a collection of feelings put on paper along the years, always at night when I am most sensitive. The poems come freely, in no particular order or chronology, and should be treated as such. They are governed by feeling, introspection and romance with a spice of sexuality and humor at times. The words are meant to be simple and touch reality. I hope you'll find some truth in them and enjoy the reading. But above all, ab...

I remember when I was seven, I started to get scary dreams at night. Large black shadowed demons entered my dreams and I didn’t know how to escape from them. They were really nightmares. My dad and mom didn’t know why and what it was and they could not help me at all. Only keeping the light on at night. And that helped a little but, when I got really tired and felt really deep asleep, it started all over again. I was attacked by large black shadowed demons and I didn’t know how to escap...

WORDS AND IMAGES is a book, where Lenka Dvorcakova connects her writing and artistic skills through poetry. In a mixture of free verse, rhyme, and rhythm, it contains thirty-two poems separated into two sections: Awakening and Love Poems.

For the first section, Dvorcakova chose poems that were written after her spiritual awakening. She has always been a curious person and have known there is something more to this world. The poems contain themes such as spiritual awakening, the universe, God,...