Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

“And since ‘A Bird Made of Birds’ is also an array of personal responses to diverse kinds of knowledge and visuals ... the most important word from the poem to place in the center. In the middle ...

There’s a poetry to it, a liminal feeling of being between two existences, that of night and day. The prefix “twi-” in Old ...

She’d be waiting; eye to the window, ear to the door, a day behind her she thinks of, morning and afternoon, as two sullen plaits of rain clipped, tightly, to her skull; then thinks of him feels the ...

Reading the title of this article probably made some of you roll your eyes, thinking to yourself, “What does the pretentious ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation ...

Dora Prieto has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Girls of the Now.

When Donald Trump won his first election in 2016, I remember two very specific things. The first is that I left The ...

The specific seething spareness of the New England said/unsaid lives in Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection of poetry, “Certain Shelter” (June Road). Death hovers, “bodies stop being,” as ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Homer‘s The Iliad is currently on Usha Vance’s reading list. JD Vance’s wife has frequently been spotted clutching Emily ...