Longfellow’s “The Cross of Snow” and Kasischke’s “Things That Have Changed Since You Died” By Zara Raab We want to read and write poems that speak to us in this time and place. That’s how they come alive. But there may be value in the very strangeness, the otherness of poems from other times and […]
Poems on the homeless: David Ferry’s “Dives”
[Note: “Dives” is reprinted below and is available on line in Google archives.] Among poems about the homeless and insane, “Dives” is not perhaps as powerful, dramatic, or moving as Donald Justice’s “In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn,” or even Ferry’s own poem “The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People,” […]