Autumn’s colors may dazzle, but its deeper message is one of mortality and spiritual preparation. Are you ready for your ...

The award-winning poet presented select poems at a reading hosted by Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and the Stanford ...

It is the dead of all the cemeteries, half-alive, mingling with these great babbling bells. This poem appears in the April 2023 issue. We would love to hear from you. Let us know what you think about ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

It’s the end of an era. So the ones who will remember will remember death on TV, the noiseless way screens make everything present, Sunday, morning. A parliament of witches cycles past ...

Praying the Rosary, recounting Jesus’ life through repeated Hail Marys, invites reflection and quiet space, embracing the ...

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

Salomé is afraid that she does not know her limits. The reason for this is an event from her past that haunts her to this day. When it comes to a quarrel with her boyfriend, she shows a ...

The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in ...