Mary Oliver was an astonishing poet beloved by many and also a frequent contributor to PARABOLA over the years.
Our Journey Had Advanced, by Emily Dickinson
A poem by Emily Dickinson featured in Parabola Volume 43, No. 3, “The Journey Home,” Fall 2018
Inanna and the Land of No Return, by Rachel Nora Greene
A child retells the legend of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and her descent to the Nether World.
Three Poems by Jane Yolen
Three Poems by Jane Yolen
Three Poems, by Mark Nepo
Heavy drops, carrying more | than they can bear, fall from no- | where, bending leaves already | sagging, and one by one, | the leaves let go.
Yu Xuanji, “At Home in the Summer Mountains,” translated by Jane Hirschfield
A poem by Yu Xuanji from the Winter of 1994.
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 50
A poem by Walt Whitman in our issue, Happiness.
Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston
A poem by Linda McCarriston
Providence, by A. R. Ammons
A short poem by A. R. Ammons
Every Word I Pick Here, by Lee van Laer
Every word I pick here | Is the wrong one, one | I’ve used too often, | Touched by thought | Until it’s worn and tired.