We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...

Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

When I am in Los Angeles, I am in the east When I am in Oconomowoc, I am in the east My heart is always in the East. Sometimes I visit it (and) Listen to it beat to the beautiful silence of the ...

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

The rapper described Pinkett Smith as the "omega of my heart" in the poem. The poem is included in Shakur's 1999 poetry collection, "The Rose That Grew from Concrete." Tupac Shakur, the rapper known ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...

Jimmy Carter passed away just 13 months after losing his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter. Read the heartwarming poem the former ...

Customers who walk into one of Philadelphia’s Elixr Coffee shops and order a beverage will receive a sweet surprise: a poem wrapped around the corrugated sleeve that holds their warm cup of coffee or ...

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Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). We live ...

Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix Memorized any poems lately? It’s a worthy exercise, often a pleasure. I have never been much of a ...