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In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...
The third annual National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place May 2-4, and will feature events at venues including Polar ...
Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up 13 collections by Atlanta poets.
Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, Wichita East High senior Ismail Saeed is one of ...
S HarshaVardhana’s new solo show ‘Subliminal’ at Delhi’s Art Alive Gallery marks a fresh departure and an arrival in the ...
Poetry is known for its brevity. And tell me, where are the poetic politicians like John F. Kennedy, who said, “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations." ...
Ideas are abstractions and there are no songs or poems without an idea, but the ideas need the bricks of words, and ideas supported by more ideas is philosophy, which I love, but is not a poem or ...
Through poems like “The Willow and the Oak” and “I Missed My Dad’s Funeral,” he recounts facing his father’s homophobia, negotiating love triangles, and finding hope in the open ...
No other season evokes such joy, love and wistful nostalgia ... including “The Ragged Stocking.” In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk father quickly sobers up on Christmas Eve when ...