When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jeff Gordinier LOVE AND OTHER POEMS By Alex Dimitrov Until the pandemic of 2020, I had never ...

“What dark flower bloomed here,/ what promise led anyone/ down this path, black orchid/ red rose/ how does consciousness separate/ itself from the body?” These lines are part of the first poem (“The ...

Sarah Ruhl’s mother was the first to explain that the word “quarantine” comes from the Italian term “quaranta giorni,” meaning forty days. “Forty days for ships to sit in ports so they would not ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was, from the bend in ...

When spoken word poets Sarah Kay and Andrea Gibson come together, magic happens. Their collaborative reading at the Paradise Rock Club on Tuesday was a melding of art forms. With interspersed bursts ...

Oroville teacher William “Bill” Jackson is also a professional magician, lover of theology, and now, a “reluctant poet.” “I never understood, nor enjoyed most poetry,” he writes. “So I never ...