Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

telling a larger story about growing older and living life after my parents have passed away. This poem centers on describing one particular part of Disneyland park where two “lands” intersect ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Her latest collection, “Mother Water Ash,” presents a mournful exploration of her mother’s life and death alongside ... Cooley writes in the titular poem of "Mother Water Ash" (LSU Press ...

This poem comes out of private memory, but it has a life of its own. I did not write it until well over twenty years after the fact when I was prompted to create a number of poems about imaginary ...