Am I allowed my fantasies?’ Joan Baez ponders lifelong pacifism in Trump-inspired poem - POETRY: Last year, the acclaimed ...

We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...

When I am in Los Angeles, I am in the east When I am in Oconomowoc, I am in the east My heart is always in the East. Sometimes I visit it (and) Listen to it beat to the beautiful silence of the ...

What language moves the soul and a river of love in us? How do you express the deeper longings and feelings? What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious joy or ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...

This is Anya Silver’s final book of poems, discovered on her computer by her husband on the day of her death in 2018 from metastatic breast cancer, which she had struggled against (sometimes in ...

Customers who walk into one of Philadelphia’s Elixr Coffee shops and order a beverage will receive a sweet surprise: a poem wrapped around the corrugated sleeve that holds their warm cup of coffee or ...

Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

To the brimming coffers of testimonials about the heart, Maya Phillips adds her fierce poem — a Father’s Day card with a twist. The heart that powered this father to his mortal conclusion has been the ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

It’s been 150 years since Vande Mataram first appeared in print. The British once banned it, yet it became the cry that ...