Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Now and Then" with animation by Eun-ha Paek of Milky Elephant. Noted for their intelligent humor,...

(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)

The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their...

This was a poem read during the Chicago performance art show "A Night of Firsts," on 6/22/07 (the author's birthday). This was something she wrote about gfoing to China for the first time, and...

New Years Pace
by MrDaMan
Virgil R. Hall II (Randy)

History is written by whiners and lions of discontent.
Aggressive cowards of utilitarian survival,
dipping their pens in...