Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections O’Nights (Alice James Books, 2015) and Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008). She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at ...

The following poems are for the Christmas holiday, including poems about the nativity, Christmas trees, family, and more.

A black biplane crashes through the window of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, removing his leather hood. He hands me my grandmother's jade ring. No, it is two robin's eggs and a telephone ...

Explore the rich tradition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer poets and poetry by browsing a selection of poems & audio. For more essays, video, and ephemera, check out our Pride Month ...

I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

today I went down on your body while windows were thick white eyes and hearkened the clogged cavities in the small darkroom of your chest, hedging an eternity over the aching voice from your gorgeous ...

Born on September 22, 1928, Irving Feldman was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated at the City College of New York (now City College of the City University of New York) and at Columbia ...

Let us be apart then like the panoptical chambers in IC patient X and patient Y, our names magic markered hurriedly on cardboard and taped pell-mell to the sliding glass doors, "Mary", "Donald", "Tory ...

Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

How shall a generation know its story If it will know no other? When, among The scoffers at the Institute, Pasteur Heard one deny the cause of child-birth fever, Indignantly he drew upon the ...

“When we relocate, emigrate, or seek asylum, the family members, friends, and neighbors [who] were around us and/or cared for us pass away. Often, it was not possible to enjoy their company through ...

Renowned Victorian author Lewis Carroll is known for his comic fantasies and humorous, childlike verse.