Today we’re posting a little empathy, or at least a question, packaged beautifully and delivered of our archive with the brutal minimum of sinistrous verbiage: Noah Kucij’s “Austerities.”
![Noah Kucij - Austerities [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/noah-kucij-austerities-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 3.2. Support the artist, support the arts! (Also, use your measly copper coins to buy a copy, plus we offer downloads, and if you were paid ten talents for your work or even five, you can surely subscribe & have delicious Storm Cellar delivered to your door!) Read on.
To our worldwide Anglophone friends, please allow a moment of indulgence. From our archive, a dulcet-piquant remembrance all well-aware and well-founded in its multifaceted tremolo: Roberta Hatcher’s “American Notebook.”
![Roberta Hatcher - American Notebook [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/roberta-hatcher-american-notebook-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 4.1. Support the artist & the arts by purchasing or downloading a copy; then subscribe. Read on!
Sunday is indeed the longest day of the year (here in the north). As the ground moves into the long climb toward perihelion, keep in mind this poem from the archive by Jennifer Markell: “My Father Fell for FDR.”
![Jennifer Markell - My Father Fell for FDR [sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jennifer-markell-my-father-fell-for-fdr-sample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 3.2.
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Stay up late, stay up late, stay up late, keep a torch by the bedside. In the best version of summer, much growing is done, much is learned by doing. Here’s Janeen Pergrin Rastall’s pointillistic “With the Prick of a Pin”:
![Janeen Rastall – With the Prick of a Pin[sample]](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/janeen-rastall-e28093-with-the-prick-of-a-pinsample.png?w=700&h=1079)
This poem originally appeared in SC 2.3. Here are links to buy, to download, and to subscribe. Read on!
We’re so brightened, on a low-slung cloudy a.m., to lift from the archive a little piece of brass-and-pillow response to old Carl‘s call — from SC 3.1, it’s Jennifer McGowan‘s “Excuse Me, Mr. Sandburg.”
![Jennifer A. McGowan - Excuse Me, Mr. Sandburg [sample]1](https://stormcellar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/jennifer-a-mcgowan-excuse-me-mr-sandburg-sample1.png?w=700&h=1079)
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