‘Salmon Skin’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society June 17, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Salmon Skin _Laid temptingly Upon a china dish, _Poached perfectly, A long, pink flank of fish. _Its scents amaze. Fork poised to dig right in, _I...
On the Art Institute of Chicago’s South Garden and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society June 3, 2025 Art, Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . In Urbe Hortus ---June afternoon in the South Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago Hard stone and brick, cold glass and steel Shrink behind the...
‘Premonition’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society April 30, 2025 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs...
‘Magnolia’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society April 16, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Magnolia The south wind’s newfound breath, The spring sun’s waxing ray, Draw from your outward death An opulent array. Before one fleck of...
‘Spring Snow’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society April 2, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle On bud and crocus-bloom. Long it reigned unchallenged In dark...
‘December 31’: A New Year’s Poem and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . December 31 __Another year _Gasps out its dying breaths. __Oh, do not spare _Any further Death’s ___Swift hand _From seizing its demand! __Do...
‘A House in Winter’ and Other Poems by Adam Sedia The Society December 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . A House in Winter Preternaturally silent, still.The omnipresent biting chill, And deepest, darkest night surround.The snow’s soft crunch, the...
‘To the Autumn Birches’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society October 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . To the Autumn Birches The languid light of waning day Glares undiffused by any cloud, Still strong, defying its decay, Then breaks on a dark...
‘Downtown’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 28, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Downtown Like an iron maze, Clustered close, towers rise, Caging the very sky. Casting their cold gaze Through myriad glazed...
‘To September’ and Other Autumn Poems by Adam Sedia The Society September 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . To September Your fields and groves are lushly emerald still; Your flowers still waft their scents and vaunt their flair; Your blazing rays still...
Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal, by Adam Sedia The Society August 7, 2024 Essays, Poetry 30 Comments . Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal “The only way forward from Postmodernism is as a reaction against it—not a...
‘To the Full Moon’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society June 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . To the Full Moon Heavenly voyager, you course Across the skies’ infinity--- The calm, serene celestial sea, Which yields before your silent...
‘Distant Thunder’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society June 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . Distant Thunder Oppressive heat in heavy air; Oppressive light from summer skies; White clouds glow with a garish glare, __Menacing as they...
A Sonnet for the 100th Anniversary of the Leopold and Loeb Case, by Adam Sedia The Society May 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure thought from...
A Sonnet for Harrison Butker, by Adam Sedia The Society May 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement address How hated...
Classical Poets Live: Readings of Poetry by Salemi, Yapko, Sedia, and Benson Brown The Society April 6, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments ...
‘The Southern Cross’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society February 12, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . The Southern Cross The caravels escaped at last The roiling tides of Bojador And entered tropic seas far past What any chart described...
A Poem on Brutalist Architecture, by Adam Sedia The Society January 29, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Once the Future You were the future once, not long ago. Your sterile walls of concrete, brick, and glass Outlined in steel, and jutting angles...
‘To One Outspoken’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society December 26, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . To One Outspoken for A.B. If I had but a fraction of the zeal That burns in you like a volcanic flame And rings like a war-trumpet’s brazen...
‘To My Daughter’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society December 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . To My Daughter A woman’s life is hard, they say---and true, Though now not as our mothers understood: They battled nature’s facts and...
‘What Sort of Freedom?’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society November 28, 2023 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . What Sort of Freedom? What sort of freedom is it that proclaims Its export to the savage and demands Oceans of youthful blood to back its...
‘Beach Fragments’ and Other Beach Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society August 11, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Beach Fragments A million tiny fragments strewn across the sand Along the foaming margin of the boundless sea--- The spiraled, fluted castles built...
‘Key West’ and Other Florida Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society July 28, 2023 Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments . Key West Rum, reeling, raunchiness, and revelry, Palms, poincianas, palaces of old--- All lie behind; the Morro Castle’s hold Guards old Havana...
CPL: Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet, and an Interview with Adam Sedia The Society June 30, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Interviews, Poetry, Readings, Video 18 Comments . Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 5 Parts I & II: Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet / Building a Renaissance If you...
Three Sonnets by Vittorio Alfieri, Translated by Adam Sedia The Society April 12, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments . Three Sonnets by Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) translated by Adam Sedia . LXXIV Melancholy, why take your only seat On this, my miserable...
‘Shishaldin’: A Poem on the Active Alaskan Volcano, by Adam Sedia The Society March 29, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Shishaldin Radiant angel, bathed in light, Gleaming opalescent white _On the smooth, sheer snow Clothing your smooth symmetry-- Smooth cone,...
‘Winter Sunset’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society March 11, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Winter Sunset Gnarled, naked boughs, shadowed skeleton arms Stretch in despair and agony. They frame Like barbed-wire twists the western sky...
‘The Modern Cardinal’s Song’ by Adam Sedia The Society October 16, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . The Modern Cardinal’s Song after “The Major General’s Song” from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance from a faithful...
‘Elysium’ by Adam Sedia The Society October 2, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Elysium O golden hour, soft denouement of day, O mystic time of quietude and peace, When boughs and rushes whisper as they sway, Twirled by the...
‘Paracelsus’ by Adam Sedia The Society September 18, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Paracelsus Creating man demands not much: Combine the four base elements In right amounts; the lodestone’s touch At once should jolt him into...
‘The Death of the Leviathan’ by Adam Sedia The Society August 31, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 8 Comments . The Death of the Leviathan The monster finally meets its doom: Sound out the death-knell, light the pyre! The depths are ready for its tomb--- Now...
Persia, Ferdowsi, and the Shahnameh: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society August 17, 2022 Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry, Rubaiyat 3 Comments . POEMS THAT BUILT A NATION PART II. Persia, Ferdowsi, and the Shahnameh by Adam Sedia A previous essay highlighted how the Finnish national epic...
A Call for Secession: An Essay on Poetry and the Arts by Adam Sedia The Society April 22, 2022 Culture, Essays, Poetry 60 Comments . A Call for Secession by Adam Sedia The fine arts currently lie atrophied in utter decline and degradation. Poetry is no exception. Ever since the...
‘The Poem that Built a Nation: Finland and the Kalevala’: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society February 28, 2022 Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry 13 Comments . The Poem that Built a Nation: Finland and the Kalevala by Adam Sedia Nowhere perhaps is the power of poetry more apparent than in its ability to...
Poetry by José de Espronceda, Translated by Adam Sedia The Society January 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . Sonnet by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Spanish by Adam Sedia Fresh, lush, pure, and perfumed luxuriantly, The blooming...
‘A Flower’ by Alceste De Lollis, Translated by Adam Sedia, and a Sonnet The Society December 14, 2021 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . A Flower for Giannina Milli by Alceste De Lollis (1820-1887) | translated from Italian by Adam Sedia A fragile herb, this blooming flower, I...
‘Incense’ by Adam Sedia The Society August 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . A hundred tongues of smoke--- Translucent wisps, lithe specters--- __Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light they...
‘Fireworks’ by Adam Sedia The Society July 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The roar of battle rends the moonlit skyWith distant thunder as of cannons booming.And bursting, crashing, popping salvos flyAbove the roar, the...
A Poem on the Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society May 14, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Apophis Apophis is the name of a near-earth asteroid that passed by our planet a few months ago, a name it shares with the Ancient Egyptian evil...
‘Crocuses’ by Adam Sedia The Society April 18, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . You meekly poke your purple heads Through stubborn clumps of snow That yet persist in fallow beds Though balmy breezes blow; First to hail the...
