Answer Line note: I decided this would be a good day to share a couple of poems that some faithful readers sent me about our current situation. Keep sending questions ...

Henri Cole's Touch is a book of reckonings. Separated into three different sections, the poems are arranged around a mother's death, a confrontation with mortality and, finally, a turbulent ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

In these 14-line, free-verse poems, all with the same title, Hayes, who won the National Book Award in 2010, examines what it means to be an American, to belong and to be haunted and hunted by ...

Anton Stephan's poem shows how life can eat at the time we have. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW. ... Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." Comments Share ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...

That line doesn’t just describe Adrian’s poetic world, the world inside that poem, and it doesn’t just describe the effect it had on me: I think it describes the entire literary native world.

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Lockdown Poems from Children Across the World Experiencing Life During COVID-19. Since March 2020, the lives of billions of children been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus pandemic.Today, ...

A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style, and hint at the ways it might have restrained him.