In “Hover,” Liza Flum delivers a debut that bends light around grief, memory, and the quiet rupture of living. Her poems do not settle; they circle, lift, and linger in the liminal spaces between ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

1. “The Purple Cow” by Gelett Burgess I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one. Short and sweet. If you’re looking for ...

Have you ever considered how much attention the God of all the world has given you? You were planned, designed, protected, cherished, saved and favored for great things!

I feel that my humble poem, Dave, has gone forth and produced 50 better poems across the world. Miller: Allison, I was struck by a word I don’t think I’d ever encountered before.

Poetry, according to Shelley, releases us from “the accident of surrounding impressions”, rescuing us from the chaos of the familiar world and creating for us “a being within our being”: ...

A year-long project by the nation’s poet laureate focuses on the natural world and what’s at stake due to climate change. Ada Limon’s "You Are Here" exhibition will take her to National ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems ...

And yet poetry will give you what money can’t even buy: a sense and semblance of a world in constant flux. In the pandemic, surrounded by all uncertainties, the world turned to the solace of poetry.

You can stick to a single line or make it an extended metaphor with an entire poem about that bridge. Use imagery, or visually descriptive language, to help tell the story.