This is a little poem about your life Education, that is, to be precise. Allow me to tell a little lay, Maybe funny and fairly gay, Of a conversation between A student who was quite keen And a ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

Poems by a Little Girl, the work of Hilda Conkling, aged nine, are to be taken seriously, with no apology for the youth of the author. Hilda is as truly a poet as she is the daughter of a true poet, ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Warning: This story contains a mention of attempted suicide. A literary magazine is printing a previously little-known work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it's not a hard-boiled detective ...

scatter my ashes in Little Bear Canyon. who wonders where I am. Tom Keene is a poet-activist and author of “Flowers for Love Makers, Peace Builders and God Seekers.” Keene's poem “Harvester” was ...

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry columns ...

Red Cross vehicles and military convoys. but the bar was set low. He had issues. He liked the sauce but got the job done. He was fruitful and multiplied. He lived for years longer than the hostages ...