Poem

Poetry Is Everywhere With 'Dial-A-Poem'

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.22.2012

A new installation at the Museum of Art in New York, titled, "Dial-a-Poem" brings ecstatic poetry to you online or over the phone at any time of the d...

Poem: Celestial Seasonings

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 05.18.2012

Hannah Stephenson

Image courtesy of Joe Webb Celestial Seasonings Flight of the bumblebee next door, the neighbor's kettle's voice through her screened window at t...

A Daughter's Love

Liz Black | Posted 05.17.2012

Liz Black

I felt myself breaking down. I kept thinking back to the things I never did, that I would never be able to do with her. I began to mourn my Mother while she was still alive.

A Poem for the Marcellus

Sandra Steingraber | Posted 05.02.2012

Sandra Steingraber

In honor of both National Poetry Month and Earth Day, I offer below a love song to the bedrock: the methane-suffused shale that geologists call the Marcellus, which now lies in the crosshairs of the oil and gas industry.

Count Me: An Ode to Liberty

Robin Koerner | Posted 04.18.2012

Robin Koerner

Left and Right and Right and Left / Have left America bereft / Of liberty, its founding light. / Christians, Liberals speak of peace / Until they hold the nation's leash, / And send its youth to fight.

Poem: Never All Things at Once

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 04.09.2012

Hannah Stephenson

Image by Jamie Isenstein, courtesy of Andrew Kreps Gallery Never All Things at Once White blossoms or green leaves, not both. "Edelweiss" with t...

Israel Bars Entry To Nobel-Prize Winning Author

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 04.08.2012

JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply cr...

Alabaster

Gideon Resnick | Posted 05.05.2012

Gideon Resnick

My tender heart wept for my soul, My love, my alabaster.

Poem: Fraction

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 04.14.2012

Hannah Stephenson

There will be a world with no you in it / and it won't be lopsided here without you.

Alanis Morissette Reads Poem She Wrote As A Child

Posted 03.24.2012

Alanis Morissette iss one of the pre-eminent singer-songwriters of her generation. In 1995, she took the world by storm, selling more than 33 million ...

One Poem: Shedding the Weight

Mallory Yael Seegal | Posted 03.05.2012

Mallory Yael Seegal

It is impressive how easily your body takes shape to violence, I can't remember the last time we touched like this.

Poem: We Look for Migration

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 01.17.2012

Hannah Stephenson

For months now, I notice what seem to be leaves floating and flapping in the air over the freeway, above my windshield and car.

Video Poem: Light House

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 12.10.2011

Hannah Stephenson

As a poet, I naturally find words, sounds, images, and phrases inspiring. Equally, I adore technology, and how it allows me to further play with pace, tone, and concept. I often make video poems, and thought I'd share one with you this week.

A Poem About Wooing From Narrative Magazine

Posted 11.22.2011

Narrative Magazine: Anne Marie Rooney’s poem “Instructions on Wooing Me” is as cool and nonplussed as flapper girl—and as promiscuous, fli...

The Neutrality of Language

Robert Weller | Posted 07.23.2011

Robert Weller

It seemed so horrible when I first heard Though that Kabul suicide bombing blast lent just the right tone For the day some said would be the apo...

Love Is Being Present In Pain

Trina Hayes | Posted 11.17.2011

Trina Hayes

Today, I am able to hold a space of love for those who have passed on and for those who remain. And, I am grateful for those in my life who have shown me that love is being present in pain.

'Twas The Days Before Christmas

Lissa Coffey | Posted 11.17.2011

Lissa Coffey

'Twas the days before Christmas And all through the house Lay scraps of ribbon and an Unironed blouse.

Poetry And Politics: What Role Should Poetry Play?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week's images of mounted policemen charging the protesters around Parliament Square evoked multiple memories: the poll tax riots in John Major's ...

The Map You Need Right Now

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011

Tom Morris

Where are you now, and where do you need to go? Do you have a map of how to get there? I've long described philosophy as cartography for the soul, a ...

Robert Lowell

The Poetry Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Lowell's Lightness A daughter considers her father's lifelong friendship with the poet he once called "the most unlovable man ever". by Dian...

Carpe Clay

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Tamsin Smith

When we work our fingerprints into the clay -- be our clay of choice material, linguistic, or the formation of friendships -- we answer our highest calling.

Veterans Day Poems From The Poetry Foundation

poetryfoundation.org | Posted 05.25.2011

The Poetry Foundation: Classic and contemporary poems from the archive that explore the meaning of Veterans Day. by Becca Klaver In poems, podcasts...

Beautiful, Horrible Words on War

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Lea Lane

On a blue-sky May day while researching a guidebook on Belgium, I traveled to a small town called Ieper, better known as Ypres, 75 miles west of Bruss...

A Note of Appreciation & Farewell -- the Poem Is for You, too

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven Crandell

By working to rid the world of nuclear weapons, we do more than remove an existential threat; we stand up for everyone's right to enjoy their lives.

Poetry and Medicine: Keats Was an Apothecary

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

John Lundberg

A new biography by English professor Bob White examines the role that the study of medicine played in John Keats' life and poetry--a subject most Keats biographers "gloss over."