A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath

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( Spring in Giverny by Claude Monet) The Blog will be on hiatus for a few days, but we'll be back soon!

(Samuel Menashe, 1925-2011, American poet) As an infantryman during the Second World War, Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) fought in France, Be...

(Illuminated manuscript of Gregorian chant, likely fourteenth century, part of the collection at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)...

( The Monongahela , a river flowing through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, white-line woodcut by Blanche Lazelle, 1876-1936, American ar...

Each Friday we provide the link to the blog that is hosting a celebration of poetry around the blogosphere. At that site you can find the l...

(from the series Homage to the Square , by Josef Albers, 1888-1976, German-born American painter, writer, and theorist of color) Sooner...

( Martinique, 1971 by André Kertész, 1894-1985, Hungarian- born photographer) THE SOUL AND THE BODY ON THE BEACH The soul on the beac...

( Spring on the Oxtongue River, 1924 , by Lawren Harris, 1885-1970, Canadian artist) “We need the tonic of wilderness — to wade sometime...

( Number 10, Art Print Poster by Mark Rothko, 1903-1970, American artist) Poets, especially, know how to point out apparent contradicti...

( Red Plum and Moonlight , woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese artist) From the earliest years of the Christian Ch...

(Postcard of Allan Gardens and Sherbourne Street, 1908, Toronto, Ontario; found at Chuckman Toronto Nostalgia) “There is kindness in Lov...

Each Friday we provide the link to the blog that is hosting a celebration of poetry around the blogosphere. At that site you can find the l...

( Sunrise by J. M. W. Turner, 1775-1851, English Romantic “painter of light,” watercolorist, and printmaker) This month, we continue wit...

( New Growth by Danna Ray, born 1981, American artist) āmĕʹn (or ah-) int. & n. “so be it,” an exclamation expressed at the end of ...

(National Park Service silkscreen poster for Grand Canyon National Park, 1938) “Simplification of outward life is not enough. It is mere...

( Kwakiutl House Frame , on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, circa 1910, by Edward Curtis, 1868-1952, American photographer) “Wherev...

( Hedgehog by Hans Hoffmann, circa 1530-1591, German artist whose watercolors of animals are sometimes mistaken for Albrecht Dürer’s wor...

( Rainy Day in Brussels by Léonard Misonne, 1870-1943, Belgian photographer) Thomas Lynch (born in 1948), the poet who wrote the sonnet...

Each Friday we provide the link to the blog that is hosting a celebration of poetry around the blogosphere. At that site you can find the l...