Finds
- The Day Came When the Risk to Remain Tight in a Bud The line everyone credits to Anaïs Nin has no evidence behind it
- Paint Chip Poetry Four hundred paint-chip cards, and the poem is in the colour names
- Intellectual Things Stanley Kunitz's 1930 debut, just entered the public domain
- Wisława Szymborska's Nobel Speech Inspiration is born from a continuous "I don't know"
- The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson Same line count as the Greek, and it moves
- Send Henry Poems Type a poem here and it prints on a stranger's thermal printer at home
- Project ESPAÑOL Ten thousand Spanish poems, sorted by the verb tenses you've learned
- E. E. Cummings on being yourself The hardest battle, and never stopping
- Juan Ramón Jiménez: "Platero stops eating and looks at me" The Spanish Nobel laureate's prose poem about a quiet exchange of attention with his donkey — surfaced by Maria Popova on tenderness as a vehicle for the eternal.
- Marianne Moore — "Imaginary gardens with real toads" From Poetry, via The Marginalian
- Mary Oliver — The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac A poem on belonging to your own life, written after cancer