poetry

The governing ACT Party has threatened to cut funding to the arts if such works continue receiving support.

The world bound up in the snow and ice of winter is as fascinating as it is forbidding. ...

Math is not often associated with poetry, but it should be. “Poetry,” from the Greek “poiesis,” meaning “to ...

There is a seasickness that is more like a spell than a sickness. It is a yearning, a ...

So long as there are lovers in the world, there will be poetry. In fact, it might be ...

A white tomb overlooks the sea on a mountain in Samoa. It is the final resting place of ...

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life ...

When I left graduate school long ago without earning my doctorate, one of my first thoughts was “Now ...

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so ...

There is something magical about a well-written poem. Using nothing more than ink on paper, one can experience ...

When I shop at Martin’s, our local grocery store here in Front Royal, Virginia, I am often struck ...

With deep emotion, “Longer Thoughts,” the third book of poetry by Theresa Rodriguez, presents poems on such topics ...

In 1821, the poet John Keats—self-quarantined with a dear friend who served as his nurse—lay dying of tuberculosis, ...

In 1978, best-selling novelist John Gardner published “On Moral Fiction” in which he declared,  “My basic message throughout ...

We frequently hear the saying “Politics is downstream from culture,” but we should consider as well that culture ...

When, long ago, the Roman Empire reached far and wide across Europe, there was one land where the ...

The written word can be a powerful force, especially when we find ourselves in times of grief. Whether ...

Poets, like the rest of us, have varying attitudes toward death. Some urge resignation, others rage; some point ...

The old house was jammed and noisy, with people standing elbow to elbow in the bar, drinking beer, ...

When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my family was visiting my mom’s parents, who operated ...

2020. Now there’s a number with some heft to it. It offers gravitas, sounding like an Army tank or ...

In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...

For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...

“John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...

Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...

NEW YORK—A growing movement is calling for the return of meter and rhyme in poetry in a bid ...