Thanks also to Jan Van Vliet, who helped me prepare for the reading, and for sending me a poem Don had written for me in 2001, called ‘Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,’ which I read at the end of ...

His wet kiss closes my lids. Overhead a crow shrieks. At home, the cat kills another mouse, fat on the detritus of what we buy and don't eat. The Ethics Of Cats is published by Broken Sleep books ...

Jóhannes úr Kötlum, an Icelandic poet, wrote about the Yule Cat in his book, Jólin koma (Christmas is Coming), published in 1932. Kötlum's poem tells the tale of a cat that's "very large ...

While his early poems displayed the influence of Romanticism, he eventually developed a counter-Romantic style, exhibited in Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), a book of poems which express a ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly bushes he often passes.

The poems gracefully encourage reading, contemplation, and creativity, and Gallup evokes wonder through her gently surreal imagery. Ages 5–9. [em] (Mar.) [/em] DETAILS share BUY THIS BOOK ...