The quintessential work poem is probably I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman. It reminds me of the seven dwarves singing Heigh-Ho on the way to the diamond mine in Disney’s Snow White.

HOW POEMS WORK. HOW POEMS WORK. Aislinn Hunter. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published November 23, 2002. ... -- From The Reed Bed (Gallery Press, 2001) This is a poem about history and reckoning.

The poem “Shirt,” by Robert Pinsky, first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in 1989. In it, the speaker merges descriptions of garment manufacturing with the social and personal ...

A recent biography of David Foster Wallace was titled Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. Fiona Moore’s poetry collection, The Only Reason for Time (HappenStance, £4), elaborates on that thought.

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” Rashid Johnson’s knotty retrospective that just opened at the Guggenheim, draws its title from a work by Amiri Baraka. Like that activist writer, the Chicago-born ...

Hamilton wrote a poem to mark Black History Month in the UK, which runs throughout October, and decided to release one line every race. He revealed each shirt has been designed by a different ...

Amid the shelves of precisely folded dress shirts, in the routine and punctuality required ... GlM-|ck recommended Reece’s work to New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn, who in June 2003 devoted the ...

Fred Perry has commissioned poet John Cooper Clarke to compose a new work in honour of its famous polo shirt. The poem is for the brand’s Annual Traditions campaign, which last year featured a film ...

HOW POEMS WORK. HOW POEMS WORK. Aislinn Hunter. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published December 7, 2002. This article was published more than 22 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.