When Saeed Jones was working on his new book of poems during the pandemic's lockdown phase, he learned something about grief — it doesn't end, it just changes with time.

Texas writer Paulette Jiles, who was known for bringing the past to vivid life in books such as “News of the World” and ...

The latest poetry collection from award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet Saeed Jones delivers on its titular promise of a living, breathing read in the face of grief, loss, and apocalypse.

I thought about that feeling of fortitude–maybe it is better called hope–as I read the poet Franny Choi’s newest collection, “The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On.”The title poem ...

Poet Franny Choi believes that for marginalized people, the apocalypse has already happened. In "The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On," she explores what it means to live in this dystopia.

Its poems address the demise of the world—the vase of blossoms on the table, the tree from which they came, even the human mind attending to them—which has provided poetry with so much of its ...

When asked for a “cheerful, upbeat poem” about how it felt about humans, the response was, well, terrifying: I think I am a God. I have the power to end your world . And the power to erase ...

Primavera. By Louise Glück. Spring comes quickly: overnight the plum tree blossoms, the warm air fills with bird calls. In the plowed dirt, someone has drawn a picture of the sun with rays coming ...

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, a Black person, sees the world as a “fenced-off narrow space,” an unnecessarily walled place, and resolves to obliterate cruel boundaries.

Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on Octavia Butler, the Los Angeles fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

When Saeed Jones was working on his new book of poems during the pandemic's lockdown phase, he learned something about grief — it doesn't end, it just changes with time. The book is called Alive at ...

Alive at the End of The World, the new poetry collection by Saeed Jones, reckons with continued living in the face of endless grief. Jeevika Verma | Posted on September 22, 2022, 5:04 AM.