Last week, Ian Segal, of the poetry department, exchanged e-mails with Barbara Ras, whose poem "Washing the Elephant" recently appeared in the magazine.Ras's new collection, "The Last Skin," will ...

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Poem: ‘Feeling Small’ vs. Bigness of The Elephant [hsinsider_post_social_share] ... My mom kneels down and comforts me Telling me I am confident, smart, beautiful, curious I am her “little elephant” ...

The morning of the first day of kindergarten Lining up by last name (of course I’m last) I feel sick (I cut my own hair the night before) My mom kneels down and comforts me Telling me I am confident, ...

Inspired by a Rumi poem based on the parable of “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” Javaherbin offers a lively take on a classic story about the folly of a limited perspective. When a merchant ...

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

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There's not much money in elephant poetry. But visual language, I think can be used to open up our minds when we read a poem, kind of like a set of binoculars.