There’s a poem from Mary Oliver I’ve been meditating on lately: “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. There are plenty of lives and towns destroyed or about to be. We ...

The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows. And it’s an art form that pretty much anyone can appreciate; a lot of poets write ...

Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake “Sound the flute! / Now it’s mute!

Simone Weil says in a passage quoted in this anthology, “A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it.” Using Weil’s definition, this is the most real collection of poetry ...

When I spoke with Harjo, the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, about this work, she started by reading the first lines of her poem. JOY HARJO: (Reading) I never got to wash my mother's body when she died.

Those names, and many more, overflow from the pages of Muldoon’s latest collection, “Joy in Service on Rue Tagore.” (I’ll save you from grabbing your phone: Rabindranath Tagore, born in ...

The Joy of Reading One Poem in Many Different Translations. Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. ... Selected Poems (New Directions, 144 pp., paperback, $16.95).

Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake “Sound the flute! / Now it’s mute!

Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake “Sound the flute! / Now it’s mute!