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Bicentennial poem recalls a Wilde visit to opera house

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...
Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.
For Anna Mekunts, poetry is less a craft than a state of being. She writes as she feels — without prescribed forms or rules — ...
For “The Favorite Poem Project,” I chose a well-known sonnet of Shakespeare’s because I love how it speaks to readers today.
The 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, inspired poet Amanda Gorman to pen "Hymn for the Hurting." Now it's a song set to ...
Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.
What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak) is a new kids' book of letter poems to friends.
Meadowlark Press has announced the release of When I Go West: New and Selected Poems, the latest poetry collection by ...
Between the two world wars, Charleston experienced a blossoming of urban pride propelled largely by the members of the ...