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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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, ...

Elephant in the Dark: Based on a Poem by Rumi Mina Javaherbin, illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-63670-4 ...

James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so The New York Sun ran his poem “The Alarmed Skipper” as a Poem of the Day last ... With “The Blind Man and the Elephant,” Saxe ...

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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.