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Award-winning poet, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of Left Margin Lit, Rachel Richardson has a new book, “Smother.” ...
Monday through Thursday she rode the bus to my house and stayed for one hour. I read poems to her, we choral read poems and ...
"I remember some of my fondest moments from last year for Poetry Out Loud ... "It's just a really beautiful poem about using ...
Franklin Abbott’s newest book, “My Ordinary Life,” is more than a collection of story poems. It’s a quiet reckoning with the extraordinary weight of recent years. With a gentle yet unflinching voice, ...
This is an excerpt from a longer article, which is published online at Noel Quiñones ’15 is a Nuyorican poet, ...
at my door, takes off his shoes. Imtiaz Dharker performs her poem, 'The Right Word', in an urban setting. This is from the series: Poets in Person This clip can be used to explore the power of ...
At its heart, poetry is about having fun with words and the sounds that they make. One of my favourite poetic devices is onomatopoeia. It's a long word, but simply means words that are also sounds.
I wrote only one poem during my stint as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. Most of my writings were either straightforward ...