Bexley resident Maggie Smith reached an international audience with her poem, "Good Bones," -- now it's become the title of her new poetry collection. Smith read from her work and discussed the po… ...

English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell.” His latest collection, The Shape of Regret ($16.99, Wayne State University Press), includes this line spoken by the ghost of poet ...

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" became a viral sensation when it was published in 2016 the same week as the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando.The exposure — rare for a living poet, let ...

Smith's poems reveal that his wonder at the world keeps him holding on to faith in the way the universe works. Ultimately, this collection points to our ability to trust in the face of volatility.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

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 ...

The need for poems at weddings is not new. In fact, there’s a special term for a wedding poem: epithalamium. This genre reaches all the way back to ancient Greece, but the most famous ...

A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes. Share full article. 440. 440.