Dana Gioia recites his poem "The Road"

"Making the Words Ours" by Kathleen Rooney

Read Making the Words Ours by Kathleen Rooney: A compelling new video project takes Whitman to the streets of Alabama.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

American poet

A Poem by Emily Dickinson on Help to the Distressed

An untitled poem by Emily Dickinson
on help to the distressed

If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.

"A Poem on Anger" from the Bible

A POEM ON ANGER
from the Bible: Proverbs 15:18, 16:32 (King James Version)

A wrathful man stirreth up strife:
But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

A quotation from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

A quotation from Section 24 of "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman:

Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

American poet

"Finding a Box of Family Letters" by Dana Gioia

Read this poem by an American poet: Finding a Box of Family Letters by Dana Gioia