Date: August 31, 1837
"A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1990
"I did not know the soul / is cleaved so that the soul might be restored. / Live wood hewn, / its sap springs from a sticky wound."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 2010
"Yet somehow, while he'd slept, the name had taken up residence in his head, as if he'd gone to sleep listening to a song played over and over, the lyrics digging a rut into his brain like a plow, and now part of his mind was still in that rut and couldn't get out."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: March, 2014
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)