With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the community, its people, and its past, present and future. Those poems will ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets, about how work, a life of duty, can make real the highest of dreams, a life of beauty. Like ...

In her debut collection, poet torrin a. greathouse explores what it means to be both trans and disabled, and the ways beauty can be a trap for trans women — so why not write towards ugliness?

Let’s begin with the title. “Bluff” — the name of Danez Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and first since January 2020 — represents a cliff or aerie, a high point from which to take ...

Distinguished educator and poetry advocate Bernice Cullinan reminds us that “poetry is a shorthand for beauty; its words can cause us to tremble, to shout for joy, to weep, to dance, to shudder ...

Poem by Rochester area college student Poem: To Absorb Beauty - Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports Just $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Show Search ...