The first poem in Volcano, Eunice de Souza’s collected poems, “Catholic Mother”, which appeared in her debut collection, Fix, ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

The book of 42 poems takes up war and drunkenness. The pieces riff on everyone from Wallace Stevens to Fela Kuti, whose rich tribal beats would be this book's soundtrack, if it had one.

The physics of loss implies reclamation, and sometimes, in small ways, there is. Not in a balancing of the scales, not in an equal gain and depreciation factoring of life -- that's not how the ...

Two wonderful poems to share with kids about the natural play of light and dark, are Robert Frost’s, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and Mary Oliver’s, “Why I Wake Early.” Here ...

The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows. And it’s an art form ...

After returning home, she began to write poems about the experience, including “The Wound.” She was inspired to write it after discovering a quote about light written by the 13th century poet ...

Light Bulb Poem. By C.D. WRIGHT NOV. 18, 2016. C.D. Wright (1949-2016) died suddenly earlier this year. Whether she was writing about social issues, like the life of prisoners in Louisiana, or the ...

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...