Author: Rus VanWestervelt

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet XVIII

  Happy Thursday, everyone. Today is April 9th of National Poetry Month, and I’ve decided to return to the sonnets of… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 8. Christopher Brennan’s Summer Noon

  Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today’s sonnet comes from Australian poet Christopher Brennan (1870-1932). It’s in English, or Shakespearean, form, and is… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 7. Wordsworth’s Beauteous Evening

  Happy Tuesday, everyone. It’s Day 7 of National Poetry Month. Today’s sonnet is from William Wordsworth (yay!). It was written… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 6. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 98

  Greetings, everyone. This is one of my favorites (though I feel like I keep saying that about every sonnet that… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 5. Sophie Jewett’s A Friendship

  Today is day 5 of National Poetry Month, where I am sharing a reading of a sonnet each day with… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 4. “On A Discovery Made Too Late”

  Welcome to Day 4 of National Poetry Month. Today, I am reading a sonnet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an British… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 3. Sonnet II by John Barlas

  Welcome to day 3 of National Poetry Month. Today, I have chosen to read John Barlas’s Sonnet II, “Since I… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 2. Sonnet VII Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2 April 2020 Today’s sonnet is from Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It’s Sonnet VII from her collection Sonnets From The Portuguese,… Read more.

• Celebrating Poetry in April: 1. Sonnet 116

  In celebration of poetry month (April), I’ve decided to read a sonnet every day this month to my seniors, simply… Read more.

• Who We Now Are

  When I started drafting this poem, at 8:50 pm, 28 March, there were 120,025 US cases, and 2,042 deaths. When… Read more.