Her poem “Love and Friendship” offers a more ... the poem argues that on the surface, love is beautiful, but it can be ugly ...
This poem has a loaded meaning for several ... grief-stricken narrator who speaks about the raven-haired, beautiful Ligeia and his overwhelming love for her when she was still alive.
Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season.
The shift has inspired teachers across the country to get creative with how they teach students things like tone, rhythm and structure in poetry. “I love being creative ... she takes a lot of pride in ...
When poet Vivian Bolan takes on the challenge of writing a poem about becoming older, we see how the memories of her childhood, her late father, and her rocky relationship with her mother have ...
In ‘My Dark Vanessa’, Kate Elizabeth Russell delves into how a teenager seduced by her middle-aged teacher mistakes abuse for ...
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...
Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha discusses the heart-wrenching moments that inspired his new book, “Forest of Noise.” ...
Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...