another great figure in American poetry, challenges the idea that life is simply a precursor to death. Life is short, and ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

Slow Wreckage is Crooker’s tenth book of poems. She has always been a sharp noticer, especially of the natural world and the ...

Poetry lovers who crave Shakespearean-style sonnets and rhyming iambic pentameter have a new collection to pick up for their reading pleasure: Last Night in Eden by J. Harold Ryder. A sincere and ...

Today’s column is written by David L. Harrison, host of Poetry from Daily Life. He lives with his wife Sandy, a retired school counselor and businesswoman, in Springfield, Missouri. This is the ...