Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

On the heels of National Poetry Month Phyllis Schwartz will be launching her third rhyming picture book on March 7 titled ...

Writing in 1992 – in an essay that essentially relaunched Pritchard’s reputation – Young wondered why his work was never mentioned, ‘especially odd given that The Matrix was published during the ...

In addition to the book being ranked among the year’s best for 2024, “The Letters of Emily Dickinson” has also received significant critical attention and glowing reviews from The New Yorker, The ...

An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, ...

An old, old, old, old, old (key word is old here), old flame of mine from my freshman year of high school recently sent me ...

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

In celebration of Black History Month, we spoke with seven children's authors about their books showcasing Black cultural and historical figures, and the importance of teaching young people about the ...