Bonus PoetryStuff

Test I asked a waitress where the bathroom was she ran off came back and handed me a load of butter. I hate not knowing German.

A wild mix of political and love poetry to remind us why it's so important to vote YES! on May 22nd for Marriage Equality. 1. Until We Could by Richard Blanco is an ode to Marriage Equality, this poem is unstoppable. From page to video -…

I might have met you once while on the road but how was I to know you would be there? No map to guide, no picture to compare, so why would I have stopped or even slowed? And yet if you had signalled me your code, I would have shyly…

Last time I talked a little about the structure of Deutschland; how each verse works, what the rhyming scheme is, why the rhyming scheme is. This second installment is about everything else that isn't rhyme, but does make the poem special.…

There are reasons to learn off by heart; even if it's mindless, even if you're not an actor, even if you're not a poet, even if you're not Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.  I say so because over the summer of 2014 I memorised The Wreck…

Sometimes at night I hear someone’s phone Vibrate through the wall. Once Then twice. My flatmate is never here. She does Law and Political Science. The guy above me plays guitar And someone downstairs, By the smell of it, Is…

His friends called him Cubby                                              For Hubert Selby Jr.  He'd spent half his life in a duel with death, the other in a quest to transcend the Ego and get out of the way of art. He birthed…

Once upon a time there was a nice boy who said lovely things about everyone and rarely did anything but smile and nod. Quite a pleasant little chap. He had a gaggle of friends: witty, smart, angry and ridiculous. They went to school…

MY MOTHER SPEAKS TO ME OF SUICIDE My mother calls me up again to speak to me of suicide. Another young man in the west has committed his suicide. She tells me that I knew him in my teenage years before I left home instead…

You cannot make a list of Women's Day Poetry, without including this poem. The earth would shake, much like it did beneath this phenomenal woman’s hips. Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman is one of the most renowned celebrations of womanhood…