From the Poems "Fray"
Slate readers discuss poems with Robert Pinsky—and with one another.
April 2010: "Mowing" and "Pan With Us," by Robert Frost. Follow the discussion.
March 2010: "The Cruel Mother," Anonymous English folk ballad. Follow the discussion.
February 2010: Valentine's Day poetry anthology. Follow the discussion.
January 2010: "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel," by Michelangelo. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
December 2009: "A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall," by Robert Herrick. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
December 2009: "An Ode to Himself," by Ben Johnson and "Upon M. Ben Jonson, Epig.," by Robert Herrick. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
November 2009: "Adam's Curse," by John Yeats. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
October 2009: "Jubilate Agno," by Christopher Small. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
September 2009: "Church Monuments," by George Herbert. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
August 2009: "Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation," by Alexander Pope. Follow the "Fray" discussion.
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