Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

In its third season, The Key Biscayne Poetry Share, led by island resident Debbie Wanninkhof, is focusing on gratitude.

This is my reading of the poem commonly known as Twas the Night Before Christmas. Business jet that crashed in Michigan was ...

Above Timber Cove, in an apple orchard surrounded by redwoods, lies “The Poetry House,” where Elizabeth Herron’s imagination met Bruce Johnson’s art.

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

It’s possible to study more “conventional” and “archaic” kinds of poetry at Kenyon. I mean, I took a class on Chaucer my sophomore year, where I voraciously read rhyming epics about talking birds. I ...

Mrs Adams, because one day you made me a gift of/ daffodil bulbs,” ire’ne lara silva writes for the kind, elderly woman who drove her every day to kindergarten in South Texas. “Praisesong for Mrs ...

Hi, I’m Janice Northerns, coming to you from Wichita, Kansas, for Poets on Plains. I am honored to share one of my own poems ...

Pattern poetry (known variously as figure poem, shaped verse, visual poetry, concrete poetry, and carmen figuratum) is a form of poetry that may be easily recognized due to the arrangement of its ...

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