David Groff, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and educator, discusses the need for poets to embrace entrepreneurial ...

“I love her work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human,” Jenna says. "Devotions" by Mary Oliver Poetry plays a “therapeutic” and significant role in Jenna’s ...

This month’s pick is “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver,” a collection of over ... “I love her work. It’s about nature and love and what it means to be human,” Jenna says.

He was replaced as poet laureate by Thomas Shadwell after he refused to swear the oath of allegiance to William and Mary because he had converted to Catholicism ... His poem Love In Their Little Veins ...

As guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024, Mary Jo Salter spent last year scouring literary journals for 75 of the best poems from 75 different poets. To appear in the volume is a coveted honor ...

The poems are accompanied by images and written scores, some of which place words on staves instead of notes. The most compelling is the graphic score, where drawn lines of varying intensity score ...

The poems in this bilingual edition from German poet Lehnert explore primordial existence, nature, and growth ... with the voices of Harriet Tubman, Mary J. Blige, Lil’ Kim, and Breonna Taylor.

But I took so much from them. These poems are often connected to a physical place, a church or monument or somewhere holy in nature, and seem wrested from the total singularity of any experience ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Will Santa come tonight? Will Santa come? Will Santa come tonight? He might. He might. If you are good, he might. Can I stay up and see? No. He will not come for you or me if we do not sleep . He’s ...

or the Virgin Mary? Either way, real women couldn’t win: They were either sinful, ruled by desire, irrational — or held to be impossibly pure and virtuous. In “Poet, Mystic, Widow ...