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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This week's Poem Of The Week, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, is Dead Man's Shirt by Stephen James Smith, who recently curated and performed at Swift's Vision, the 350th Birthday ...

HOW POEMS WORK. Don Coles. Published November 18, 2000. This article was published more than 24 years ago. ... A few of his poems, though, are that good, and the one you see here is one of them.