Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a ...
Whereas Wilson looked on the decline of poetry's cultural position as a gradual process spanning three ... wishes can come true--even extravagant ones. If I, like Marianne Moore, could have my ...
The woods took them back as if they had never been. I wish I had thought to put my face to the grass. We kept on walking, speaking as strangers do when becoming friends. There is more and more I ...
October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...
Take that mask off and show me the person you really want to be for me. I know sometimes I feel like a boulder on your shoulder or even colder when the night is over I got a list too, of all the ...
A poem written by the ... responses from people aged three to 60 and above. The responses were to prompts including “Dear ...
It is part of Burns mythology that Burns liked a drink or three, although this may be used ... and fiscal significance for Scotland. This poem, when read in alignment with The Author's Earnest ...
NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.
And three, a bit about the form of each poem ... and then we'd pull on it and make a wish. And the wish in my poem is wishing the child back. TESTAMENT: With multiple meanings.
Seminal rap group A Tribe Called Quest was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Saturday, a decade ...