The Daily Poem

Today’s poem enshrines the short-lived optimism surrounding the “Great War.” Happy reading.


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Today’s poem is about the work work gets in the way of. Happy reading.


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Today’s poem is a carpe diem lyric penned by the Renaissance patron par excellence: Lorenzo the Magnificent. Happy reading.


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Today’s poem offers two ways of being in America–maybe the world–and like so many great poems it is eminently concrete but easily universalized. Happy reading.


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Today’s poem traces the waxing and waning of lights around the Bay City. Happy reading.


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