From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

On the surface, it seemed like any ordinary friendship. But Joyce wasn't just a friend; she was my grandmother's closest friend. When our relationship began, she was 80, and I was 25. Our age gap ...

The original working title of my forthcoming book was “My Partisan Grief,” which remains the title of its first poem. I was shocked and angered that so much of the artistic and poetic world ...

I just visited my 62-year-old friend in the hospital and am dumbfounded. Last July, he fell stacking logs at his house and injured his back. He went to the emergency room, where he was told to ...