Shh

It all happened
in silence,
yet within
the silence
voices were
endlessly busy.

- Tomas Transtromer, 2011 Nobel laureate,
from memoir

Presenting

James Franco
is now
a poet,
don't you
know it.
Franco does it all.

Smart

She was also
extremely
bright,

the only one
in town who
could write

a poem.

— Alice Hoffman, "The Red Garden"

Morning

She knows that a poet
like Richard would move sternly
through the same morning,

editing it,

dismissing incidental ugliness
along with incidental beauty.
-- Michael Cunningham, "The Hours"