We have two Sunday Poems for you today. The first is dedicated to our readers in America's Pacific Northwest, which has been hit by devastating storms this week. The poem is "The Storm," a wind-swept piece by one of my favorite poets, Theodore Roethke.
Roethke was born in Michigan in 1908, attended the University of Michigan and Harvard, and went on to teach at several universities including the University of Washington, where he influenced a generation of Northwest poets. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection The Waking in 1954. The book is out of print, but a number of poems from it can be found in Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems.
Our second poem, "The Coming of Light" by Mark Strand, is a beautiful little piece dedicated to our readers celebrating Chanukah, Santa Lucia, and the Winter Solstice holidays.
Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward's Island in Canada, attended Antioch College, Yale, and The University of Iowa, and now teaches at Columbia University in New York. He has published many books of poetry and prose, winning the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Blizzard of One in 1998, among other honors. He has been Chancellor of The American Academy of Poets and Poet Laureate of the United States.
The art in this post is "Neptune's Horses" by Victorian artist and socialist Walter Crane, and my little sketch "The Light Bringer".
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