My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

AN EARLY poem by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), the first black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, describes the funeral rites for a woman who might have been a poet: “But it [the casket] can&#… ...

It might not have seemed like it at the time, but all those schoolyard rhymes you memorized as a kid were poems in disguise. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...

Clark — born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1941 — first fostered a passion for poetry at the University of Michigan, where he became a favorite student of the late former poet laureate Donald Hall ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand died Saturday from liposarcoma, a cancer in the fat cells. The former U.S. poet laureate, MacArthur fellow and author of more than a dozen books of poetry ...

Remembering W.S. Merwin W.S. Merwin died Friday at the age of 91. ... He leaves us his vast collection of poems, including many about his deep love for the natural world.

Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays.”Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.

Indeed, Beth's poetry is defined by an intellectual examination of the interior of the human experience, something her students remember about her from when she taught at Bellevue Community College.

The poems of Betyna Bock do not merely preserve emotional memory of the Holocaust, they enable us to understand such emotional memory. They are testimony to the fact that the shock, surprise, and ...

Opinion: Remembering Ukrainian poet Victoria Amelina. July 8, 2023 7:53 AM ET. ... Victoria Amelina was a novelist, but since Russia's invasion last year, she'd mostly written poetry.