Marginalia

from Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi

from Julius Lester’s Introduction to Some Changes by June Jordan

"Language Barrier," Alina and Jeff Bliumis (2008)

Anna Akhmatova as drawn by Amedeo Modigliani l: "Woman Reclining on a Bed" (c. 1911) r: "Standing Nude in Profile with a Lighted Candle" (c. 1911)

Seamus Heaney, Pura López Colomé, and Hans van de Waarsenburg: IN MEMORIAM JOSEPH BRODSKY, The Maastricht International Poetry Nights, 2000

"They Feed They Lion" by Philip Levine — a choral reading by the students of Ishion Hutchinson's Intro. to Creative Writing class at Cornell University, 18 Feb. 2015

A selection of covers from Philip Levine's books (U.S. editions) and pamphlets (U.K. editions) spanning his body of work

John Donne, "poet and divine"

American Poetry Now, edited by Sylvia Plath, published in 1961 (full text here)

"Knees of a Natural Man" by Henry Dumas

Homer on papyrus at the Neues Museum, Berlin: 2. Iliad, Book 21-23; 3. Iliad, Book 8

"The Dragon" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (via Carl Phillips)

by Umberto Saba It's good to recover in ourselves lost loves, or reconcile ourselves to an affront, but if life pent up inside weighs you down, take it out of doors. Throw open the windows, or go down into the crowd; you'll see how little it takes to cheer you up: an animal, a game, or, dressed in blue, a shop-boy with a wheelbarrow clearing the street with a loud voice, who, if he finds the slightest downward slope, runs no more, but flies. The streets are full of people at that hour who don't keep quiet after dodging him. The noisier the uproar and the wrath, the more he swings his hips and sings.

"TV project Self Burial," Keith Arnatt (1969)

The geography of Dante's Divine Comedy as sketched by Albert Ritter