It's ingrained in us from the first cartoon we see, the first picture book we read, the first fairy tale we learn by heart: poetry is the language of romance. And while today's romance novels are ...

As a debut poet of 2015, Robin Beth Schaer has me totally excited to see what she’s going to give us next. Her poetry is a kaleidoscope of almost-electric imagery, with undertones of the past, present ...

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Go ahead,” Jorie Graham says in “Killing Spree,” her 16th collection of poetry. “Try to posit/the future.” This challenge is ...

BORN and raised in Guyana, Jamella Chesney is an environmentalist, career coach, and poet who writes about women's ...

While poetry is often thought of as ink on paper, the work of concrete poets blurs the lines between written work and visual art. The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections is the new home ...

Three new poetry collections by women both well-rooted in Alaska and well-traveled in the world share close attention to the world and compassion for all its beings while bringing very different ...

You could be forgiven for not reading a poem since your school days, but poetry is not as you remember. Contemporary poetry is fun, exciting, and so refreshingly accessible. Now's your time to pick up ...

I love writers who can weave worlds with words, especially when I want to escape into a new world. Reading poetry by writers of color was one of the first places where I saw myself represented as a ...

A lot of people wrote poetry during the pandemic. No, I don’t have numbers to back up that statement, but Seven Days has received ever-increasing volumes of local verse in the years since the lockdown ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...