To dramatize both discovery and clarity in a poem is to write a Poetry of Poise. I wish we saw more of it. This is my theme for 2012. It's not so much that a Poetry of Poise is under attack from ...
WHO: Texas’s 2024 poet laureate, Amanda Johnston. WHAT: The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for Johnston’s project, Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Heart and Soul of ...
Writing about wine can be complicated for many different reasons. Choosing the right word to describe how wonderful (or unique) a wine tastes or smells or all the other ways wine can stimulate our ...
In a world awash in tragedy, it’s easy to overlook the ordinary: the simple beauty of the everyday, the breeze that reminds us to inhale and exhale, the still moments that whisper, “Look. See. Live.” ...
April is National Poetry Month, which celebrates, among other things, the power of poetry. E. Ethelbert Miller reads and discusses several of his poems with Liane Hansen. Miller is director of the ...
There could not be a more fitting title for Jeanine Hatha­way’s new poetry collection than Long after Lauds. Lauds is a monastic morning prayer, and Hathaway was a Dominican nun for nine years ...
In previous years, Slatehas paid ambivalent heed to National Poetry Month by publishing poems against poetry, or poems in which the poet disparages other people (and their poems), or poems expressing ...