Fireside Poems

Walt Whitman recalls a childhood memory that speaks of his origins as a poet

The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses the spiritual teachings of the Catholic monk Miquel de Molinos to to celebrate the spiritual life of the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier.

Friends recognize that their lives can never be one again.

An intersectional discussion of gender and culture as its vfound in Longfellow's "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie."

On the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, James Russell Lowell questions whether America as it is is the America we dream of in our youth.

A celebration of summer rain and of poets and seers who see deeply into the world's mystery.

A celebration of potters and pottery from around the world. An appreciation of artists and their craft.

"Maud Muller," a poem of love unrequited.

A summer's day at Lake Como. A rejection of both Puritan America and Disneyland America in favor of the appreciation of beauty.

Advice for the young person setting out to make their way in the world.