These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.
Yet that inch of distance is as immense as an ocean. The poem might have ended there, on this fourth, expected line. But the author subverts expectation by adding two extra lines. To the abyss of ...
I’ve learned something new about myself these past few days, which is that I am not naturally ... in the poem’s consciousness, is the idea of the word made flesh: “There are moments when ...
“I hope I can make some more steps and become better than I am now. In terms of intensity, I am not yet where I want to ... Every time, the intensity was there. This was a top day for the ...
Grant’s debut novel, “I Am the Cage,” is inspired by her childhood ... Most of these untruths are harmless — white lies, we call them. But there are some lies we tell as parents, however ...
Her poem went viral, amassing 270,000 views as of ... “This actually made me tear up, I am so proud of you and I don’t even know you,” another wrote. Another user, @Seydanoirpoetry, shared ...
Margaret McCarthy describes “In the Becoming” as a “full circle moment.” The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” ...
The urge is all the more mysterious for the fact that although I’m a gay man, I am now in my early seventies ... The boys, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, not yet twenty years old, have taken ...
I am actually feeling really good about this ... The “Work” singer said this weekend that idea is actually “way off!” “There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited.
Johnson relied on one of his trademark rhyming poems to express himself ... I, too, prefer a more competitive All-Star Game. Yet, I am skeptical that there is a long-term solution to making ...