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

For the father ... World War II; and, with his family, he lived in Mexico as a political exile during the McCarthy era. In 1958, the Oppens returned to the United States and George returned to poetry.

A poem found in an old desk at the Barnstable transfer station turned up a story that crosses time and distance. Was it fated ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende ... her life, and her mother’s, and hers. Remember your father. He is your life, also. universe is you. Remember all is in motion ...

A WWII veteran, devoted Catholic, and family man — my father embodied the balance of strength and kindness that today’s world so desperately needs.

Martin Luther King III discusses the legacy of his iconic father and his emotional struggle to forge a path of his own in an ...

"My mother has been as much of an influence as my father, although she was ... he's present in poems dedicated to him." Poetry 'as a way to make sense of the world' Mobili said he spent at least ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

One of his longest-running productions, “By Heart” (2013), pays tribute to his grandmother by teaching audience members a poem ... “On my father’s health.” On opening night, the exchange ...

Thus snake and woman, the inorganic and organic, pain and joy, the safety of the interior and the hostile worldly world ... the poems in Part One, When the Angel Comes for You. In my mind, these ...