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“Spring still makes spring in the mind / When sixty years are told: / Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, / And we are ...
Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...
Poetry is popping up in the Sharswood section of North Philadelphia. You can’t miss it. It’s right at your footsteps. Shed ...
Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...
Tender, beautiful, and totally captivating, Devotion by Mícháel McCann is a sure-fire way to spark a new found love with contemporary poetry. At the heart of Mícheál McCann’s eagerly awaited ...
At just 16 years old, Kyo Lee of Waterloo became the youngest person to win the CBC Poetry Prize. That was in 2023. Now at 18 ...
Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...
The poem “Happiness” is taken with kind permission from the poetry collection Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong (Anahera Press, $25), available from selected bookstores or directly from the publisher.