I do not speak a word of wind. Anton Stephan is a longtime Rochester resident, with a background in education, where he worked for over 30 years. He is now retired. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry ...

Poet, novelist, critic, and professor Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) numbered among his Columbia University students such literary figures as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. An advocate for liberal ...

The poem is written from the perspective of a man watching a child dancing “upon the shore” without a care “for wind or water’s roar”. As the child has not yet reached adulthood — having “not yet ...