Branton Publishing

Located in northern Delaware. Poetry, fiction, criticism, and classic literature

[Elena Shalneva @ShalnevaE]

My medieval literature professor -- who was both absolutely exceptional & absolutely vicious, not even trying to hide her contempt for subpar students -- threw a student out of her class once with the words: "I cannot let you taint Villon with that provincial accent." I'm guessing her approach wouldn't go down well at Berkeley of 2026.

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. Franz Wright

[Branton Publishing @BrantonPress]

@phillipcrymble @niurefine @NewYorker There's a video floating around YT of James Merrill reciting this at the 92S Y. Knockout recitation.

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @NewYorker. What a poem!

[John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 @JohnMcCullough_]

W.H. Auden, 1944. From: ‘The Sea and the Mirror’ in Collected Longer Poems (Faber, 2012).

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Poems for Lent (Day 40)
Holy Saturday

Beginning with these lines
by T.S. Eliot (taken from
East Coker, 'The Four Quartets')

[Bianca Stone @biancastone]

And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff's talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed...

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

Tomas Tranströmer, tr. Robin Fulton ~

I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write
swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship
and drifted away at last through the night sky.

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

James Merrill. “No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”

[Peege @bloodsigns]

The Letters of Seamus Heaney. (I dream we will bring paper letter writing back from the brink) If anyone has an essay about the nature of the centuries of minds shaped by correspondence set down on paper vs those born into the technological age — I’d love to read it.

[Eric T. Racher @Eric_T_Racher]

Wallace Stevens.

[Isidro Li @isidro_li]

Osip Mandelstam (translated by Maria Enzensberger)

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“Your soul is like a landscape fantasy.” A poem by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman Shapiro.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

From James Wright’s poem, “A Blessing”

[Isidro Li @isidro_li]

Richard Wilbur

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Robert Hayden masterpiece:

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

Lord help me, I have entered the sonnet discourse—but for a good cause. My latest for @TheTLS is a review of Paul Muldoon’s wide-ranging SCANTY PLOT OF GROUND: https://t.co/KDpOXiFxNa

[Peege @bloodsigns]

The Poems of Seamus Heaney edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis

[Sally Read @sallyreadwriter]

Amazing Don Paterson