For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its ...

I thought that was brilliant — an internal epigraph — and such a nice way to describe a move I keep seeing in contemporary poetry, a move I’ve liked every time I’ve seen it, which sits ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Years ago my wife memorized a poem dear to many readers, especially elders, for its melancholy beauty: “When You Are Old,” by William Butler Yeats. Readers who know about Yeats’ unrequited ...

The Sunday Herald Sun understands Alicia Schiller wrote the poem ‘Time Is Not Forever’ during an education class at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre last year. A prison source said the 661-word piece ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will ... the man of twists and turns/driven time and again off course, once he had plundered/the hallowed heights ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... Donald Trump will take the oath of office for the second time, offering his rejoicing voters a Make America ...

Lucy Mercer’s first collection Emblem (Prototype, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her nonfiction essay on wax and ...

The show, curated by Alejandra Labastida, spans two decades of Aranda’s career, specifically focusing on her years-long investigation into time and the politics of imperial systems of ...