Poems and poetry possess a strong bond with the way humans interact with each other. The delicacy of poems can help someone win heart or to leave a strong impression regarding something. For years, ...
Lifted, with permission, from Vladimir Mayakovsky's "My Discovery of America" (1926), in America Through Russian Eyes, edited and translated by Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. New York: You ...
Wichita? The woman who was married to serial killer Dennis Rader for more than 30 years once found a draft of a poem he wrote about one of his victims, but Rader said in his confession to ...
Walt Whitman wrote his Fourth of July poem “I Hear America Singing” eight years later. It was published alongside several ...
The poem was published in The Art Review, in April 1870. Even more obscure is his ballad, “Song of The Car Coupler” ...
Poetry and sport on TV may be the unlikeliest of teammates, but they’re often the perfect match. And during a summer of major ...
Ranked the No. 4 finalist at the 2023 Woman of the World Poetry Slam, Dallas author, artist and speaker Alexandria Gurley, ...
The poem is a poem about time, two types of time. Continuous time and frozen time. The dog’s time and my life’s time. The ...
Mary Stiles found a ragged little flag outside her patio door at Oxford House and was inspired to write a poem about it.
This clarity of viewpoint is important, and then putting that thought into words is secondary. Having such awareness of one’s ...
Stephen Yenser, who helped found the Hammer Poetry Series, stands before a bookshelf. A published poet himself, Yenser ...