"Child Made of Sand" is not the poetry of youth; it is the poetry of wisdom and understanding. Glynn Young reviews Thomas Lux's new collection of poems.

I wanted to give you something of comfort: words like an armoire smelling of talc, lined with lace, concealing a ruby bracelet, tortoise shell comb. Words that melt on the tongue a communion wafer. wheaten and whispering of salvation… (from the poem “Why Write” by Judith Valente) I read Judith Valente’s Discovering Moons twice, once [...]

A review of Michael Ryan's 'This Morning: Poems'

Poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk)

A poetry review of A Thousand Vessels.

Quick: name a contemporary love poem.

A year outside brings us to a year inside. Poems of nature, dreams, sensual love. Divided by seasons, the poems explore the range of human experience.

Estes’ poems evoke a sense of the literary and of everyday reality. He ranges from Virgil to a one-armed, drunken grandfather, and the art of Brueghel.

In the Chicago Poems, Sandburg writes about the immigrants and laborers who helped turn Chicago into the economic powerhouse it became.