Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...
Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...
A native of the Scarboro community, Rose Weaver has dedicated her life to education, advocacy and preserving Black history in ...
Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...
Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.
"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...
And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...
An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder of the artists’ collective USCO, which helped define the 1960s with psychedelic, ...
Her offspring will face “a life of being swept about on the whipping stem of a teasel”, yet she is resilient, evolved to weather the storms. Reading this poem recalls the work of Padel’s ...
(Davis) (Benesh) Weaver passed away peacefully on January 9, 2025, at the remarkable age of 96.Born and raised in Ohio, Gloria lived a life filled with music, love, and dedication to her family ...