she realizes she has a long way to go before she finds her wings. how much a god, how much a human. I call on you to live the will to love. This is more a poem about life than merely a poem of ...

he said, “are rather simple. They are only about one subject ...” I agreed with him. “These are snapshot poems,” I told him. “They are glimpses of life to save and re-savor. Just as we ...

I wanted it as a long ... a poem every week since, either because they felt right in the moment or because the moment brought them to me. Struggling to make sense of my changing life, I memorized ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way ... It amazes me now to think about how simple my life is right now, and by simple I don’t mean easy; I mean pared down.

It's so simple, they'll be done by lunchtime." Cosmically speaking, of course, we will all be "done by lunchtime." An awareness of death permeates "Life on Mars." Two of the longer poems ...

[It's] a very simple list poem. I lost my uncle, who's also in this book. This book is full of ghosts. I lost [him] in 2012 to suicide. He had a long struggle with mental illness, which runs in ...

In early 2023, the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) decided not only to include poems in their highly respected professional publication, but also to publish ...

One of the best pieces of breakup advice my friend Genna gave me during a tumultuous end to a long-term relationship ... options to infusing your life with more poetry. To expose yourself to ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...