Although his approach departs somewhat from Rilke’s — the speaker in these poems may not always love the questions quite as ...

It asked a crumb of me. Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words that conjure ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

These valuable quotes about life are even more significant in a ... It’s one of the longer poems on our list—the above is simply the opening snippet; you can read the full 434-line poem ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose ... Are we ever able to fully comprehend our own inherent powers of creation? My son’s babbles sparked ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown ... to donate and ways to engage in our ...

We expected books to be a comfort and an amusement as they always had been to us parents, part of our lives ... Her collection, one poem for each of her eighty years, is "The Myopic’s View ...

Master of Fine Arts students at Antioch University in Los Angeles are required to do community service to enhance the “writing life” of others. As part of our series Where Poetry Lives ...

Poems are often said to have a decelerative capacity; they can arrest the constant chatter of contemporary life, allowing us to ... as a means of confronting our own animality.