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WAR Some centuries ago Powerful clerics In order to attain A perfect orthodoxy Banished the very Lord of Charity And sent their soldiers out To bind and burn Some stubborn scholar Or...

A Seaside Autumn (December 2011)

A SEASIDE AUTUMN Children are back on the playground At Our Lady of Ostrabrama Filling the air with a babble Like that of a hundred birds Asters and goldenrod appear All over town Wherever earth...

The Boxwood Hedge (December 2011)

THE BOXWOOD HEDGE Two hundred years ago A schooner with a cargo Of Polish swans And English boxwood bushes Was bound for New York Harbor When it was shipwrecked in a storm Just off Long...

Burning (September 2000)

less prognosis-we created an intensive home-based pro- gram of...

Music (December 1999)

Music When I was a child ! once sat sobbing on the floor Beside my mother's piano As she played and sang For there was in her singing A shy yet solemn glory My smallness could not hold And...

After Psalm 137 (November 1999)

After Psalm 137 We're still in Babylon but We do not weep Why should we weep? We have forgotten How to weep We've sold our harps And bought ourselves machines That do our singing for us And who...

Five Wishes (October 1995)

Anne Porter Five Wishes I'd like to have a wild bird Perch on my hand Perhaps a sparrow Or a chickadee Sudden with her sharp feet And fragile daring I'd like to see again The etchings Rembrandt...

Poetry: (July 1995)

Anne Porter A Sale Neighborhood Shopkeepers, bankers, poets, contractors, Watering quiet lawns And sleeping in warm houses. If even here Some ordinary grief can knife our hearts Down to the...

Poetry: (June 1995)

Anns Porter Summer Cottage This a a house that smells of melons and roses And the sea wind pours through it And the light curtains Are always floating And the airy sprays Of the...

Poetry (December 1994)

13 Anne Porter A Carol Painters can speak To my am Who can see Musicians To anyone Who can hear Apoet Can speak only To someone Who knows His native language I can speak to you In...

Poetry (November 1994)

Anne Porter In Another World It was the second decade Of our century When I began my life Large patches of the former century Lingered like snow in April Cities were quiet Though sometimes...

Poetry (November 1994)

POEMS Anne Porter Old in the City You grow geraniums And crochet baby-bonnets But you walk slowly Every day more slowly As if there were a rock In your poor belly You stay away from...

Poetry (December 1993)

hind him. When he reached the house, he came up two steps and stood beyond the full-length glass of storm door and the pane of the front door. Between the two doors a large wreath of balsam...

Poetry (October 1992)

Anne Porter Autumn Crocus Some of the leaves Are falling early But there are glinting Dragonflies Hornets in windfalls And a brown honey-bee Searching about In the surviving roses The...

Poetry (December 1991)

penicillin in the 1940s) so that the effects of the disease could be recorded. The play is set in 1932, when both Nurse Evers and her patients believe the men are or are about to be treated for...

Poetry (November 1991)

POEMS Anne Porter Scott's Elegy Some of the leaves Are falling early But there are glinting Dragonflies And the brown honeybee Searches about In the surviving roses Flock after lilting...

Poetry: (October 1990)

Anne Porter House-Guests "All of us are coming" No they are not coining They may be coining They may not be coming l;(iur of them are coming That is, if they are coming! l;ive will come on Friday...

Poetry: (November 1989)

Anne Porter In Storm-Watch Season For Anne Robertson The foaming clematis Has finished blooming The autumn Equinox is here The air is very still But day and night Storms in the Caribbean Keep the...

Poetry: (May 1986)

Anne Porter Living tilings Our poems Ate like the watt-bogs . In the zoo It's hard to say Why there should be such creatures But once our life, gets into them As sometimes happens Our...

Poetry (February 1989)

Anne Porter C;iimnirields of ripe wheat 'Xriifi&JB the bcitrt id' France . n fuoi from Paris '$$& fiamcdible stones $&tbi kl wave of the Sabbqth f$Jittt vflla gathered around it Wis jj crowded...

Poetry: (December 1988)

Anne Porter HERE OH EARTH The old man living In his rented room Grows lonely as the night comes on Especially in winter And the boy shooting drugs On the tenement roof Is lonely whether or not He...

Poetry: (September 1988)

Anne Porter The Wall I'm on a journey And looking out the window of the train At signs of early spring Some of the trees Have put forth flakes of leaf Translucent, pale from winter And the...

Poetry (May 1988)

Anne Porter Farmyard by Moonlight There must be a farmer asleep under the eaves Filling his room with the surf-like sound of his breathing. He takes deep draught of rest. Gathering all of it in...

Verse: (April 1988)

Anne Porter In Holy Week While we're asleep The paschal moon is shining High above the trees And high above the trees Even while we're sleeping blaster is growing In the paschal moon Like a...

Verse (December 1987)

Anne Porter La Bella Notizid We're at the winter solstice With its long nights Wars are still not over Weapons arc heaped on weapons Terror is hoarded like grain Those who have no houses Arc...

Verse (June 1987)

Anne Porter Native Americans Blue eggshells Empty In the grass; On the rough-coated hills Translucent, the little pastors-rose. Eagle's shadow Sweeping the high pasture, _; Wordless...

My Anastasia (November 1985)

Screen TALES OF TWO FAMILIES THE OFFICIAL (& UNOFFICIAL) STORY THE official story is a film about complicity and conscience. It stars Norma Aleandro (co-winner of this year's Best Actress...

Foue Seasons Carol: A Biography of Flowers (May 1985)

POEMS by Anne Porter Four Seasons Carol The barbs of cruel Auschwitz Grow back again and again Hiroshima's poison Gluts the arsenals Famines invade and wither The lands of Africa, Coldness...

Verse (August 1984)

Ownership is consonant with changes in workers themselves. According to a recent survey by the Public Agenda Foundation, today's more educated workers demand much more from a job than a good...

Verse: (November 1983)

Fire Fire, most beautiful of flowers. Whose only perfume is brightness. You have no season, and you bloom On the highest of high altars And under the vagrant's pot. Through centuries on centuries...

Verse (September 1982)

Robert Hirschfield Mr. John Ficken. Dead of Cancer, SI. Rose's Home Your Lazarus smile, Sly as a risen knife, Summoned the angels In the linen closet. Your bones, sea foam, Turned like...

Verse (November 1980)

A Federal Sexton Speaks "'Twenty-eight of the national cemeteries are inactive with no space for future burials This well-won grave beside the noisy city embraces a very sleepy young man He...

Verse (December 1979)

LeRoy Smith, Jr. The Last Impertinence God woke and found his dream was true: Adam had burnt the wilderness And, smug within his specialities, Was rocketing towards paradise. Damned clot, God...

Porter, D. Gareth

Porter, D.Gareth

Porter, Jack Nusan

Porter, Jean

Porter, Joan Rohr Myers, Anne

Porter, Kenneth W.

Porter, Pamela Rice

Porter, Philip

Porter, Philip G.

Porter, Roy

Portier, William

Portier, William L.