The Poetry Bench
4 stories
Aug 5, 2026 Lina Lapelytė: Time Built by Many Hands Four hundred thousand wooden cubes click into towers, shelters and hills while poetry moves through a former railway hal... Jul 17, 2026 Victoria Chang: Tree of Knowledge A eucalyptus cut down outside the window; three hundred people ordered out of Eureka in 1885; a twenty-page poem at the ... Jun 22, 2026 Robinson Jeffers: The Poet Who Built With Stone He hauled granite boulders up from the Carmel shore and built his house and a four-storey tower with his own hands. Robi... Mar 21, 2012 Suggested by Olivia: Emily Dickinson, 'Fame is a Bee' “Fame is a bee. / It has a song — / It has a sting — / Ah, too, it has a wing.” In four lines Emily Dickinson ca...