Date: 1912
"Famous garden where the passion, / Bursting first disclosed the morn / Whose effulgent, beaming glory / Cleft old Chaos, brain and spine; / Lit up incense burning shrine, / In the heart of man for Eve."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1938
"Listen, kids who die-- / Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you / Except in our hearts / Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp / Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, / Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht / But the day will come-- / Your are sure yourselves that it is...
preview | full record— Hughes, Langston (1902-1967))
Date: 1959
"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."
preview | full record— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Date: January 25, 2005
"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.
Date: 2014
"You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a collapsing mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)