Mathias Svalina delivering his envelopes filled with dreams (photo by Sarah Vasquez) There’s a haunted quality to a city at night. After the bars close and crowds clear the streets, a lone cyclist on ...

They answered him, “We each had a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.” So Joseph said to them, “Surely interpretations belong to God! Please tell me your dreams.” ~ Genesis 40:8 I wanted to ...

Every morning, poet Mathias Svalina rises early to bicycle around the city he's visiting to drop off dream poems to subscribers. He reads a poem he wrote for Morning Edition listeners. You know, you ...

Short, evocative rhymes offer lunar tributes in 14 likable bedtime poems by Ghigna. Across varied poetic forms, verse variously compares the moon to a lollipop, an orange, a ball of ice cream, a lost ...

I feed it coins and watch the spring coil back, the clunk of a vacuum-packed, foil-wrapped dream dropping into the tray. It dispenses all kinds of dreams—bad dreams, good dreams, short nightmares to ...

Kate Hosford, illus. by Jennifer M. Potter. Running Press Kids, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-762467-14-3 In this magnetic, informative collection, playful poems explore the surprisingly varied sleeping ...

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), Source: Jewish Museum, New York/Public Domain About three years ago, I started a series of poems in the ...

In this, my final column after more than a year of weekly choices from current American book publications, I’d like to circle back to a poem that snagged my attention in the early days of my ...

The poet Marvin Bell has been writing “dead man poems” for more than a quarter century, beginning at age 53. His recent generous volume, “Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems,” brings together four ...