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.

It’s a miracle that a poem written by a Native American woman ... We are more alike than different. her life, and her mother’s, and hers. Remember your father. He is your life, also.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

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

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

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 ...