Gene Kahane reflects on five years of posting poems on trees in Alameda, "I’m writing this to say farewell to the five trees — I hugged each one recently to say thanks — and to thank all of you in ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

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If you feel lies are impacting your relationships and life, you may have asked yourself, “How do I stop lying?” It all starts with understanding the cause of the lying habit and exploring the ...

Eva Murciano writes, “When I tried to write poetry / After that terrible day / The words fell face down on the ground.” Yes, we’re all face down on the ground. Every Palestinian, every ...

Alex Connock has worked or consulted for BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Meta. The world’s biggest video sharing platform, YouTube, has just turned 20. It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing ... and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of ...