As he puts it in “My sight, which was my power, now blurs”: I am a candle. I burned at the feast. to burn posthumously, like a word. I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky ...

And when the bombs came closer, the candle would shake. And it's the obviously subconscious echo that, I think, has gone all through my writing life. And in this poem, particularly in this book ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Take “Renovation Song”: “These days I fill an absence with a candle. I carry/the word CARE around, as if I have the right to./I dump CARE out the window.” I wish more poems were this ...

It is widely held that “Edge” is the last poem Plath ever wrote ... the subject’s brief candle has gone out. “The woman is perfected.,” it begins. “Her dead/ Body wears the smile ...

And when the bombs came closer, the candle would shake. And it's the obviously subconscious echo of that, I think, has gone all through my writing life. And in this poem, particularly in this book ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...