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Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Chrysanthemums and wine are featured often in his poetry, which was judged as too simple in his own era and wasn’t appreciated until centuries after his death. Afar o’er life’s turrets and ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...