How can I focus my sight so that I'm seeing who you are now and who we are together and maybe to deal with some of the, you know, deep ... short little poem, I think, does a lot to make room for ...

in short, to draw a new circle." Or, one might say, to see another spring arrive, in all its ambiguous glory. David Orr writes about poetry for NPR Books and other publications. His most recent ...

As local poet Heather McHugh wrote recently, "Poetry is language coming to its senses." This small collection of short poems helped ... it also speaks deep truths about the nihilism embedded ...

With words from the heart, poems and a stirring photo, people yesterday began sharing on the Internet their memories and thoughts about 9/11 with us – and with generations to come. A sister ...

While these poems won't offer easy answers to grief, they will keep the kind of company that only poetry can, because only poetry can convincingly say, as Ruth Stone does in the last poem of this ...

When I did not feel understood in the world, I wrote. When wracked with grief, my best poems showed up. And when I felt overtaken by love, I just couldn’t stop the flow, even while driving a car.

In an opening note, Nelson explains her most important artistic decision -- writing the poem as a heroic crown of sonnets -- "as a way of protecting myself from the intense pain of the subject ...