Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

These 6 poems capture the essence of unrequited love. Share them with that special someone who doesn't feel the same way, but whom you just can't forget.

In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

or click on a title below to jump to that particular poem. My Son, could I have climbed this hill for You, How willingly had I endured each stone: Yet, I too struggled up steep Calvary; You have not ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” -- celebrate the singer-songwriter and Kennedy Center honoree ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews ... “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin. You can’t get out of it on your own.” Tove Ditlevsen only became well-known to Anglophone readers ...

All that said, my only option in the next election is the Conservative party. The current government’s allocation of funds outside our country ticks me off. I want a government that focuses on ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures ... Linda was their only surviving child, born in 1940, after the Oppens had endured ...