I declare myself free from all malevolent thoughts. Free from telling myself things I would never say to someone else. I know I make mistakes. I know I am not perfect. I know I am human. Would I judge ...

what it is doing in the mind of the woman. The woman wonders too. The river is raw tonight. The river is a calling aching with want. The woman walks towards it her arms unimpaired and coated with ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous poem: ...

I came to my love of books through both my father, who is a former poet laureate of Connecticut, and my mother, who credits a childhood love of reading for helping her resist a family cycle of ...

I feed it coins and watch the spring coil back, the clunk of a vacuum-packed, foil-wrapped dream dropping into the tray. It dispenses all kinds of dreams—bad dreams, good dreams, short nightmares to ...

With vigorous wit and clarity, Diana Marie Delgado writes scenes of growing up in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. The poet traces the rich voice of identity through the turbulent ...