Well into Summer
Longer days. Shorter nights. A season of growth and renewal.
Here are are some poems offered for your for your summer reading by The Academy of American Poets.
"Vacation" by Rita Dove
"In Summer" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Spain" by Major Jackson
"Long Island Sound" by Emma Lazarus
"Travel" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Back Yard" by Carl Sandburg
"The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens
Be sure to check the "Related Poems" links on each page.
And check out the following topics:
Poem #1: Talk to Animals (and Stars)
Write a poem addressed to some animal, object, place, or maybe even to a person, whom you don't know or don't expect to read this. You could write to your cat, to a lemon, to a cutthroat trout, to Madonna, to Martha Stewart, to the Empire State Building, or . . ..
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are authentic.
They come from a place inside of us that is real. They are spoken in our own voices and touch on matters that genuinely concern us.
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Stanza Breaks
In poetry, stanzas are visual groupings of lines. A group of two lines is called a couplet. A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line stanza is a quintet. Two other common lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave, eight lines.
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