Last summer, Maggie Smith — no, not that one — sat in a Starbucks in Bexley, Ohio, and wrote a poem. Smith had no idea that she was setting down the first lines of a work that would seize the ...

Poetry’s supposed timelessness means that we sometimes overlook its capacity to memorialize a precise moment, but Peter Gizzi’s “In Defense of Nothing” — an earlier poem from this major ...

With poems about snow I can at least imagine that all those cozy images are the real story. Because, let's be honest: snow is more mood than weather. (That's gotta be why it's listed as a scent in ...

The New Year – time of change, time of new starts. Both poems today, the first by Jackie Kay, the second by Matt Goodfellow, capture the mood of the early days of January. They come from the ...

Murji says he and Haile came up with the idea in the summer of 2023, reflecting on their commutes to school from Scarborough and the impact that Poetry on the Way – an old program discontinued ...

The poem neither questions that faith nor affirms it. The poet, carefully tracking the quicksilver moods of her subject, declines to impose her own view of the matter.

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane shares some of her favorite poems about the autumn season. ... Dear Annie: Poems to put you in a fall mood. Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 6:05 a.m.