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In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

ECSTASY: Poems, by Alex Dimitrov In his seminal “Letters to a Young Poet,” Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice ... not take ourselves, or life, too seriously.

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.

First there is the interesting vocabulary, phrases not available in everyday conversation, then simple but memorable ... For instance in a long car trip, when it wasn’t my turn to drive, I ...