In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its insults and banalities, is an object of unhappy necessity. The poetic form, however, resists the other’s ...

Object Details Artist Ruan Yuan (1764-1849) Label Picture stones from Taihang look like crowding clouds, ... Wave Stone, by the famous Song dynasty poet Su Shi (1037-1101), who also wrote a prose ...

That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain “Romantic Poet.” 0 Romantic 1 Poet 2 by 3 Diane 4 Seuss ...

The MBOE (AKA, the Most Boring Object Ever) could be a dust bunny, a rock, a twig — whatever a student decides. It's my way of engaging students in a crowd-sourced poem, whereby we ask questions ...

Object Details Description Small bowl with flaring sides, straight rim, low foot. Clay: hard white, porcelain. Glaze: transparent greenish. Decoration: overglaze painted in white, blue, red and gold.