Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.
free verse poems don't follow any obvious rules. Instead they often follow the rhythms of natural speech. So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family.
Selected poets will be reading poems of flight and travel, of wingspans and window seats and turbulence, of moving through the air above the earth and coming to land again. The Improbably Places ...