The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...

This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. In this sonnet (there’s a dropped line in ...

Blending photography and poetry is the focus of the exhibition “The Gravel Underneath” that is opening at the Patton-Malott Gallery at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. today. The ...

Shara McCallum is the author of six books, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

with it. I bleed. I’m a thing of flesh. I wear all costumes, every deathbed wake. You get the best gods you can make. This poem appears in the March 24, 2021 issue. We would love to hear from you. Let ...

In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting (real or imagined) with the abusive father. The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.