Academic Articles

The poem “The Same Old Song” by Richard Howard is presented. First Line: When the two of us are old—me bald of course; Last Line: admit we make a damn attractive pair.”

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The poem “Karantina Massacre, 1976, East Beirut” by Ruth Awad is presented. First Line: That smell stippling down; Last Line: dark you couldn’t outrun.

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The poem “Bobolink” by Daniel Mark Epstein is presented. First Line: You rise from dry meadowgrass; Last Line: Because we cannot fly.

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The poem “Bildungsroman” by Peter Streckfus is presented. First Line: Where am I. Last Line: soda between ourselves.

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The poem “Blue Song” by Dannie Abse is presented. First Line: Some things there always are, Last Line: that’s why I sing the Blues.

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The poem “Jacob’s Ladder,” by Gary J. Boelhower is presented. First Line: When you are on the ladder with a paint brush; Last Line: as an angel descending with blessed reminders.

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The poem “Time and the River” by William W. Runyeon is presented. First Line: Time and the river have always; Last Line: exceeded by those we desire.

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The poem “Conversation” by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Jennifer Reeser, is presented. First Line: You are a lovely sky of autumn, clear and rose! Last Line: Burn to ash these remnants salvaged by the beasts!

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