Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about ...

Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made nature and everything around you feel sacred, and she turned solitude ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

Advice to Her Son on Marriage by Mary Barber from The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr C— When you gain her Affection, take care to preserve it; Lest others persuade her, you do not deserve it.

Dear Joanne: I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are as relevant today as they ...

And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” “A Winter Eden” by Robert Frost “A winter Eden in an alder swamp. Where conies now come out to sun and romp, ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion.

His well-traveled life, and his reliance on senses other than sight, suffuse the quiet scenes the new poems construct, outdoors in the snow, “beside the abandoned woodstove,” or indoors under ...

Poem: Still life Anton Stephan's poem shows how life can eat at the time we have. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. By Anton Stephan. March 04, 2025 at 12:00 AM. Comments Share ...