A young person wrote a poem about pandemic despair. Here’s why it gave me hope. ... My mother, a high school English teacher, started going to graduate school for counseling psychology.

My early poems were composed using a lot of fictional devices: I approached time and transition differently than I do now; I often resolved poems in the way that fiction might resolve its project ...

Love poems can be hard to read. ... The second person “you” in the first line and throughout the poem invites the reader into a private relationship. ... She Ties My Bow Tie.

Last month, she won the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a $100,000 prize which recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: And I wonder if you could maybe read for us a little excerpt of the poem that you wrote for your sister afterwards. DOROTHY DUFFY: Yes, of course. My sister is not a statistic ...

There’s a little bit of false advertising to “A Poem Is a Naked Person,” which — while it does boast a naked woman — is not the revealing biopic that its title suggests, somewhat ...

As he appears in “A Poem Is a Naked Person” — a documentary made in the early ’70s and now receiving a belated and welcome United States theatrical release — Leon Russell is an enigma ...

Out of the more than 200 poems written by students, Boa Mistura chose Valentina’s. It was that one line — “finding my home in every voice that I hear” — that jumped out to the artists ...