Self-Portrait With Father. By Donika Kelly. We sit on opposite sides of a picnic bench, behind him, the black walnut tree, its fruit rich with maggots. Behind me, a wall of ivy we prune every ...

Self-Portrait of Librarian With T.S. Eliot’s Papers. By Alison C. Rollins In the year 2020, T.S. Eliot’s papers will be unsealed. Let us go then, you and I. Let us take the dust in our claws ...

like a bell rung backwards. Their necks push into different weather. I remember how that feels, Daneen Bergland's poems have appeared most recently in Denver Quarterly, Cerise Review, and Poet ...

About this poem "Ut pictura, poesis: As with painting, so with poetry, the saying goes, and perhaps this is why from time to time poets, like painters, use the exercise of the self-portrait to ...

Poem: Self-Portrait as a Silk Purse. by Patrick Cotter. Patrick Cotter . Patrick Cotter. Sat Sept 04 2021 - 00:00. On this shelf lies a small gathering of heirlooms from four generations.

Poet Charles Simic, who died in January 2023, wrote a story in the October, 2000 issue of Food & Wine all about his longstanding love for Italian restaurants. In it, he shared his poem, Cafe Paradiso.

I don’t use Reddit all that much anymore, but every now and then I open the app just to read this poem again. For me, “self-portrait with a yellow dress” is more than a beautiful piece of ...

The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...