Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was an American poet who epitomized the style of confessional poetry which emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Other exemplars of this style include her friend Sylva ...
Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.
The new book of poems by Ann Mirabile Lees, “We Are All Seatmates on the Spaceship Earth,” is an enchanting collection written since her first book appeared in 2012. This new book contains 62 poems in ...
The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...
Poetry transcends individual identity and serves as a vessel for greater meaning, according to Joy Harjo. “It’s really not about me at all—I’m just a kind of messenger,” Harjo said. “There’s something ...
A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self. If, as Zora ...
American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...
She’s a poet — and she’s always known it. A NYC public school teacher ditched her day job to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a bard — and now writes poems for strangers on the streets of the Big ...
On a recent reading tour, I had the good fortune to visit, in the old towns north of Boston, the American poet and translator Len Krisak (b. 1948). And we spoke a little, as people do, of poems and ...
I’m Ann Fisher-Wirth, the Poet Laureate for Mississippi 2025-2029, and I want to tell you about my new podcast series called “The Favorite Poem Project,” available through the Mississippi Arts ...
With a series of poetic park installations and a new anthology, the U.S. poet laureate hopes to remind visitors and readers of their stake in the natural world. Around two years ago, Ada Limón started ...
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