There’s a poem from Mary Oliver I’ve been meditating on lately: “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. There are plenty of lives and towns destroyed or about to be. We ...

Those names, and many more, overflow from the pages of Muldoon’s latest collection, “Joy in Service on Rue Tagore.” (I’ll save you from grabbing your phone: Rabindranath Tagore, born in ...

How do we incite joy within ourselves? In his latest collection of essays and poems, “Inciting Joy,” author Ross Gay ponders the kinds of experiences that have touched his life and brought him joy.

When I spoke with Harjo, the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, about this work, she started by reading the first lines of her poem. JOY HARJO: (Reading) I never got to wash my mother's body when she died.

Joy Harjo: I’m really honored to be part of it. If you look at the previous honorees of this lifetime achievement award, it’s really humbling to be a part of that company. I saw B.B. King ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

In Joy Harjo's poem "Redbird Love," the speaker, through her own ("we") perspective, tells the listener of the main events of a bird's life. In the opening line of the poem, ...

Orsha Olayiwola Poet Laureate, City of Boston Poet-in-Residence, (Photo provided by Porsha Olayiwola) Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 that the last known group of slaves, in Galveston ...

The Joy of Reading One Poem in Many Different Translations. Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. ... Selected Poems (New Directions, 144 pp., paperback, $16.95).