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 ...

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 ...

1. “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. One of the most iconic poems in American literature, Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is a ...

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?

The beauty of poetry is its universal appeal—the most famous poems ever written are just as enjoyable to newcomers as they are to aficionados. Still, ...

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 ...

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 ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Sylvia M. Vardell, who lives in Dallas, Texas. When asked how she became interested in poetry, Sylvia says, “My parents are German immigrants and ...