Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Naomi Shihab Nye


"Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things / feel the future dissolve in a moment / like salt in a weakened broth.”



poet, songwriter, novelist

Excerpt from “Kindness”

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Gwendolyn Brooks


“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

Writer, appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in
Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.