Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written would reach from here to the California coast if you laid them end to end. And if you stacked them up, the poems I have not written would sway ...

I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots I have never seen a post-war Philco with the automatic eye nor heard Ravel's "Bolero" ...

Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star as bright Aldeboran or Sirius, nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War; stars turn in purple, glorious to the ...

Come at it carefully, don’t trust it, that isn’t its right name, It’s wearing stolen rags, it’s never been washed, its breath Would look moss-green if it were really breathing, It won’t get out of the ...

Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia on June 6, 1925. She received her BA and MA from Radcliffe College. Kumin has received the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, an American Academy of ...