This week's Writer's Block features a set of deeply personal and resonant poems by Richmond-based poet. Each piece explores ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Many readers are joining our staff in sharing favorite poems ...

RAINING It was a rough evening outside but a warm feeling within. Lynn and I were with fellows and gals passing out food outside a closed church in Norfolk’s Park Place. The rain came down bu… ...

Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast and Other Tasty Poems Jack Prelutsky, illus. by Ruth Chan. Greenwillow, $18.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06301-913-3 ...

It’s unsatisfying in the way of all short unsatisfying poems; the end of any poem is a reward, but bad short poems satisfy too soon. There are no hidden corners, no places to get lost in and ...

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Columnist Bill Ruehlmann, reflecting on life as we now know it, finds a better perspective in “How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope." ...