Central Railway, Sydney  

Philip Levine, a former auto worker from Detroit and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2011–2012, passed away on February 14, 2015 at the age of eighty-seven. In celebration of his life and work, we present this poem, which …



Two Poems  

CENTRAL RAILWAY, SYDNEY In a shit-house stall in Central I saw the one word “Mum” and thought once more of young men torn by want or war or hunger from their families, the West Virginian I wrote of thirty years …