Diane Seuss’s work is a reminder of how a good line stays with you like some love. By Diane Seuss Selected by Reginald Dwayne Betts There is a poem by Diane Seuss that begins, “Jesus wept and ...

There is always something humbling about listening to another flawlessly recite poetry, and never more so than when that other is your father-in-law. We were on some freeway in Southern California ...

Conrad: And I don’t ever want to hurt you again. Belly: I don’t want to hurt you again either. And I don’t know if it’s something we can control, but we can try.

Above all, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender. To know that the world is here to both guide us and lead us astray. Toward the end of the long poem, Limón writes: "I will not ...

This week, local graphic designer, electronic musician and Charleston’s poet laureate Marcus Amaker shared a recent poem from his latest collection of poetry, The Birth of All Things, “The ...

THE HURTING KIND Poems By Ada Limón. ... We all know what that is, though we can’t do more than approximate a description of it, even the poets among us.