You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The great American poet William Carlos Williams famously said, “No ideas but ...
Lansing poet laureate Ruelaine Stokes visits the Tollgate Drain Wetlands. Winning entries in her We Are Water poetry contest will be displayed there. The poet laureate of Lansing, Ruelaine Stokes, was ...
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In this episode, an award-winning poet discusses editing a book of poems by an award-winning poet—“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”, edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary ...
In his once-famous 1836 essay, “Nature,” the American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) set out to “interrogate the grand apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.” “Water,” ...
In “Wade in the Water,” the title poem of Tracy K. Smith’s new poetry collection, the poet en­counters the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters: One of the women greeted me. I love you, she said. She didn’t ...
always a half-hour car ride away. There has never been a time I couldn’t cleanse myself in a living body of water on the same day I thought to do so. Still, the news tells us water is not a given and ...
Did you know April is National Poetry Month? It was established in the U.S. in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate and raise awareness about poetry and why it matters. Poetry is a great ...
For the writer Yanyi, poetry is everywhere. YANYI: I've written poetry accidentally while texting my friends, while getting really excited about something. And, you know, you end up going on a rant, ...