In the mountains, there you feel free. I read ... the full 434-line poem in one of Eliot's poetry collections—and a bleak ...

reminds us here (and in the full poem) that fulfillment in life is not always some exaggerated tale of breaking free from everything. Sometimes work and duty, when performed earnestly, can bring ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

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.

MARINA opens up to PEOPLE about the writing process behind her new poetry book, 'Eat the World,' which is out now.

“It was kind of a leap of faith, going, ‘Huh, we’ll see if I can do this,’ because I have not taken poetry classes. I don’t study poetry. I don’t practice it at home,” Curtis Kaiser sai ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll ...

As long as I got you, and you got me, we will be free.” Leading up to the results of Tuesday ... On Wednesday night, he ...

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'I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...