The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
The Atlantic3d
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...
Big Rapids Pioneer6dOpinion
UP AND DOWN THE RIVER: Poetry for springtime
April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...
The Santa Barbara Independent4d
Poetry Connection | Get to Know Santa Barbara’s Next Poet Laureate
There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...
These are Scotland's 10 greatest poets - and none of them are dead
It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...
Reader's Digest17d
22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...
Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
ThePrint on MSN6d
From Ayub Khan to Zia-ul-Haq—Pakistani poet Habib Jalib wasn’t silenced by dictators
Over 30 years after Habib Jalib’s death, 'Dastoor' remains a protest anthem. In 2019, it resurfaced during anti-CAA ...
In ‘The Land Between the Rivers,’ an observer views Maine with a sharp eye
For many readers, “The Land Between the Rivers” will be an introduction to Todd Nelson and his lovingly crafted observational ...
With 500 species, Long Island is a birders' paradise
Estimates of the bird population vary, but experts say between 300 to 500 species can be found at various times of the year ...
Smithsonian Magazine20d
‘Politically Repurposed’ Copy of Famous Shakespearean Love Sonnet Discovered Inside a 17th-Century Poetry Collection
The rare handwritten copy of “Sonnet 116” features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British royalist ideas into the romantic ode, according to researchers ...
My Country poem by Dorothea Mackellar: The places in Australia that fit the famous lines
While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.