While formally published blackout poems are hard to come by due to copyright issues, some poets, like Svetlana Saraswat with her collection Blackou- (spelt deliberately), have self-published ...

Many readers are joining our staff in sharing favorite poems this month ... “For those down and hard times,” Norris sends “Don’t Quit” by John Greenleaf Whittier: When the funds are ...

But the poem’s longevity owes a lot to its universal appeal. As travelers, we never know with certainty if we’re following the correct path ... Chinese poets. “Hard Is the Journey ...

The poems reminded me both of John Berryman ... Was there a piano? Dust landed so hard it made holes.” I found “Path of Totality” mysteriously empowering, as though it offered proof ...

It’s hard to say whether nature puts Hass ... (Hass, for one, has said that stumbling across a Stevens poem as a teenager sealed his career path.) Start with “The Snow Man” or “The Emperor ...

Few poetry books may be more openly honest than Suzan E. Zan’s collection, "From Suffering to Salve: My Journey to Happiness" (Turtle Cove Press, 2021). Organized into three parts, the poetry ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

JC Roberts recently published his first book of poetry, “The Cobblestones I Know.” The book is filled with poems detailing the Dickson City resident’s vivid imaginings of his youth growing ...