Home Poem

I want my home
made of a poem

With couplets for chairs
and rhyme schemes for stairs

Paintings of metaphor
similes on the floor

And free verse all over the walls!

- Lesléa Newman, written at age 14

Listen to Lesléa Newman read this week's poetry selection

Lesléa Newman is the Poet Laureate of Northampton and the author of the poetry collections "Signs of Love" and "Still Life with Buddy."

"Hear a Poet, There a Poet" features poetry by local authors chosen by Northampton's Poet Laureate Lesléa Newman. It runs on Wednesday's book page every other week. Poems for this column have been pre-selected. Please do not send poetry submissions or requests to the Gazette.