Poet Jack Smith has served as Dorchester County’s first-ever poet laureate since 2001.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

One reason I think we keep making poetry is because we are ourselves poems. There’s a verse in the Bible (Ephesians 2:10) in which we are described as the “handiwork of God.”But it’s the ...

It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer words have never been spoken. This is the essence of Joanne ...

Arun Rath: You’ve said that “The Sun Poem” was born in Boston, so take us back to 1985 and the gestation of the poem. Sara Ting: It was actually written in 1978 in a personal journal; it didn’t become ...

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

The poem’s final book ends with Adam and Eve banished from Eden, and an assertion that “to obey” God “is best”. Tyrants, fancying themselves godlike figures, rather like that message.

Poem: Oedipus said Retired Rochester educator Anton Stephan explores the concepts of fate and free will for a famous name from Greek tragedy. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay.