And of course, death, and the passing of the world. In a recent interview for the Poetry Foundation, Eisen-Martin said that watching musicians gave him ideas: “For example (and to paraphrase), the ...

The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows. And it’s an art form ...

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.

Her “Poems for the End of the World” are a gift, a diversion, a distraction; supremely existential, fully resolved, loaded with a casual kind of hope. They are of a crisis, but not about a crisis.

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.

For poet Ada Limón, evidence of poetry is everywhere. It connects big ideas — like fear, isolation, even death — with little details — like field sparrows, a box of matches, or "the body ...

The World Is Breaking in Flowers the Breath of Things. By Precious Okoyomon. Our love is a blue instant and forward-looking sky Every dream is a moment of freedom Bliss hovering above the void ...

Gabby LaRiviere will read from her book “The Art in My Gallery, The People in My Life” on Thursday, Aug. 8 at ReachArts, 89 Burrill St., Swampscott, from 7 to 9 pm.

Bristling centipede, Blue-bubbled man-o’-war, Spitting spittlebug. Hail to the. hair-raising, hideous, weird, and wild. If you want to write poetry, grab a notebook, go for a walk, slow down ...

“The world needs to hear the poems, whether it is set to music, or read,” said William Parker, a multi-instrumentalist, in a recent Zoom call. “It should be mandatory that every school in every city ...