silenced by the snow-bound woods. above the timberline. Even as you climb you are turning past the overlook. None of us can see the switchbacks as we rise. Below, the forest shudders in wind. Arts ...

This is the essence of Joanne Sherry Mitchell’s latest collection of contemporary poetry, "The Pain We Call Love," in which Mitchell digs into the harsh realities of love. Love is complex.

Poems. Poem of pain and passion. July 13, 1928. Save this story. Save this story. The New Yorker, July 21, 1928 P. 63. Now we must abjure embraces, View Article. Published in the ...

The founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry explains why we should all be self-medicating with verse . ... How a poem a day can ease life’s pain and help us through the hardest times.

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” published in September, deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness. “I think that sometimes going into a very vulnerable ...

Poet Kwame Alexander has created a poem from submissions about the challenges of the past year and our dreams for the future. It ends with: "For through the struggle, we may hope to become stronger." ...

Dear Abby: In response to the letter from a postal worker in Cottage Grove, Minn., regarding the tragic loss of children in the Oklahoma City explosion: Five years ago, on the same date that letter… ...

PHANTOM PAIN WINGS, by Kim Hyesoon (New Directions, 182 pp., paperback, $18.95), translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi, reads like a variety of horror — haunted, grotesque, futureless ...