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 ...

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

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.

His Poems Are a Joy to Hear, Even When Their Meanings Aren’t Clear. In his latest collection, Paul Muldoon continues his longtime trick of marshaling obscure references into fluent, ...

Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood. “Spring” by William Blake “Sound the flute! / Now it’s mute!

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 ...

About poetry there are many cliches, as every amateur expounds on “poetry in motion”, ... McDonald toasts the joy of living with a poem. By Al Creighton. February 23, 2025 ...

Since its publication, the poem has been reinterpreted into children’s books and movies, adapted into songs and read all around the world, continuing to inspire joy and wonder in kids and adults ...

The entire notion of a volume of “collected poems” — a benchmark for any venerable and venerated poet — has been about volume. Typically, poetry anthologies are robust books, compared to ...