Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the ... Harrison Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas?

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in the water, there's the crocodile. Come up on land, there's the tiger." ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices ... “meh” about something, I let it go. In my experience, the risk is worth ...

Perhaps the prolific poet was content with letting her mind journey through her transportive ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think.

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted ... title to his newest book of poems. Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of ...