Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Humans require more than just sustenance to thrive; they also need enrichment and joy. This principle is especially relevant ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

Her latest collection of poetry, Girl ... “we have let this earth burn / like forgotten bread. / I think of places I’ve found sacred/in my life where a girl / can find clarity on who she ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

Parashat Beshalach that we read this week is known as “ Shabbat Shirah ”—Shabbat of Song—because we read the magnificent and ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Observant members of the Australian literary world have been amazed by the Times Literary Supplement of September 10, 2010. I ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...