3 bits from the Hive Mind

by Hermann Hesse Born in the German Empire, when the Germans  had no empire, Hesse didn't win the 1946  Nobel Prize in Literature fo...

It had come to be almost one hour before midnight. Immersed in the cold of a winter night that was reaching full strength, I sat in the ...

by e. e. cummings E.E. Cummings dressed in his First World War military uniform. WWI was far more psychologically damaging than t...

Copyright © 2007 by  Natasha Trethewey , who was twice named Poet Laureate of the United States of America , serving that duty from 2012 to...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807 - d. 1882), Harvard professor and lifelong poet who experimented with many styles throughout his...

The writers of this song explained that they were trying to describe the Soul of a typical California, that is, a slave under the spell of ...