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Poet Sidney Lanier and the Lost Cause
As he began to write the manuscript that became his historical novel Brookhaven, author Glynn Young knew he would use a 19th century poet as a kind of infusion into the story.
Poet Laura: The Verdant Respite of Portugal + New Poet Laura Introduction
Sandra Fox Murphy journeys through Portugal as she concludes the year and passes the feather to incoming Poet Laura, Donna Hilbert.
Poets and Poems: A.J. Thibault and “We Lack a Word”
Screenwriter and novelist A.J. Thibault waited a few decades until he published the poems and prose poems he wrote in college.
Poetry Club Tea Date ✨ The Turning
Get your favorite steep (or brew) and join us in writing a poem based on Maggie Smith’s “I Think of You, Eréndira.” What will turn in your poem?
Poets and Poems: Catherine Strisik and “Goat, Goddess, Moon”
In “Goat, Goddess, Moon,” poet Catherine Strisik takes us on a poetic journey through family and personal history in Greece and Crete.
Poets and Poems: Andrea Potos and “The Presence of One Word”
“The Presence of One Word: Poems” by Andrea Potos considers the things we retain in memory throughout our lives.
Poets and Poems: Mary Brown and “Call It Mist”
In “Call It Mist: Poems,” Mary L. Brown uses words like a surgeon’s scalpel, looking below the outwardly obvious to plumb rhe depths beneath.
“Horace: Poet on a Volcano” by Peter Stothard
In “Horace: Poet on a Volcano,” British author and journalist Peter Stothard tells the story of the Roman poet through his odes.