Posts from Poetry Month
More than 70 people contributed entries to the contest, which asked for poems inspired in some way by John Keats’s “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.”
With stars above and regolith below,
Expecting, I suppose, a route well traveled—
Shielded by sycamores with knees like cyprus
Such clean impressions,
Here upon the Western bow
He left his home
Much have I labored in the halls of mold,
Let men believe
he tried to sail to the shore—