Dear Ann Landers: I am sending you a poem that I think is very powerful. I hope you will share it with your readers. J.W. in Bothell, Wash. Dear J.W.: Thank you for a poem that is sure to get mixed… ...

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.

The book contains poems written about God (or as if they came to us from God) from Christian mystics (e.g. Catherine of Sienna, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, St. Francis Assisi, Meister ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

During the last week of National Poetry Month in 2014, we featured snippets of Times articles you can use to create and share your own short poems. To begin, select an article and click on up to ...

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 ...

Rosenberg’s “God” offers a image of devastation that extends beyond the physical and psychological, and it is the way all his poems stretch beyond humanist revolt against horror and into a spiritual ...

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 ...

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.

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.