another great figure in American poetry, challenges the idea that life is simply a precursor to death. Life is short, and ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

Since 2010, the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, started and hosted by Colleen Michaels of Montserrat College of Art, has been ...

Boston-born, Richmond-raised Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatest writers of all time and his name is one that inspires images of dark, atmospheric plots, haunting characters and soul-gripping ...

There is likely no one among the more than two million residents of Gaza who hasn’t been touched by death in the last year of ...

enclosing several poems. Thus began a correspondence that lasted until Dickinson's death, some twenty years later. Higginson was baffled by Dickinson--he recognized her unique talent but called ...

I imagine it looked like safety should by the shape of it, the shade. It should have touched us like a twilight beheld by ...

He originally shared the poem on Instagram in 2017 shortly after the death of the woman affectionately ... of his mother's influence on his own life. "I’ve found great peace & comfort in pretty ...

An interview with the acclaimed Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha, whose new book distills the experience of Palestinians living ...

Norfolk’s Tim Seibles receives a lifetime achievement award from the Furious Flower Poetry Center, joining other top ...

A Palestinian poet and Vietnamese novelist both living in exile reflect on two revolutionary writers who inspired them.