Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

His name refers to the feat of having learned the Koran by heart. The intimations of divinity in this short poem are apt because Hafiz was a devotee of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that speaks ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Johnson’s immortality project is thus totally recursive, since any surplus energy must be reinvested in producing yet more energy. Maybe this is what businesspeople call a “growth mindset ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

March 10, 2025 • Ciara Totton reads a poem by Diane Seuss ...

For many, the fact that the success of a song lyric tends to hinge upon on its accompanying music, the voices that sing it, and the performance itself means that it cannot be considered poetry.

Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections ...

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen - CCEA Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney - CCEA An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - CCEA ...