As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

Santa Fean Arthur Sze is the winner of the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Library of ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

On a beautiful day by Boston Harbor, a walk can be a great way to clear the mind, but Anne Jolles suggests taking several ...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

FORCING the front door open, police officers took in the horrifying and bloody ‘slaughterhouse’ crime scene in front of them. Two badly injured, lifeless women’s bodies – ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s ...

We all struggle with people in our lives ignoring our boundaries, and then we wonder how to maintain them and remain focused on our healing and growth.

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...