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.

“Headlines red like my typewriter ribbon, headlines read like these pieces of poems,” she wrote in an 18-line poem. The in-person process typically takes anywhere from five to 15 minutes, she ...

I took stories I’d presented for the NewsHour and I wrote them again, in a different voice, in a different language, that of poetry. Not as “news poems,” but as poems about the news and the experience ...

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 ...

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 ...