At its best, poetry is a reminder of the beauty of life,” Álanna Hammel of The Purple and Gold Writers’ Collective says. Sometimes, this beauty can be something we can lose sight of. Sometimes, our ...

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a ...

This week’s Poetry Connection poem comes from longtime conference attendee, Toni Bixby. She attended two morning sessions of ...

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I’d read poetry from poets like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou. Carl Sandburg wrote, “Poetry is the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

I’d read poetry from poets like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou. Carl Sandburg wrote, “Poetry is the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.