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Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat’s “Love, Etc.”
Love Etc. reminds us what eternity is, and what part of it is contained within ourselves.
Poets and Poems: Brian Gardner’s “Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918”
Brian Gardner’s “Up the Line to Death” preserves many great poets and poems of World War I.
Poets and Poems: Nicholas Samaras’ “American Psalm World Psalm”
Poets and Poems considers a new collection of 150 poems by Nicholas Samaras, each in the form of a psalm. “American Psalm, World Psalm” speaks to the heart.
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The Muppets take selfies, how Twitter can help you write better sentences, death by poetry and what Gertrude Stein finds most exciting. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poets and Poems: “Selected Poems 1923-1975” by Robert Penn Warren
Poets and Poems features “Selected Poems 1923-1975, ” which reflects the poetic maturity of Robert Penn Warren’s work of than 60 years.
Top 100 FedEx Small Biz Contest Finalists Poems
The top 100 FedEx Small Business contest winners are in. And they are looking marvelously poetic. (Amusement at no extra charge.)
Get Your Short Poems Featured!
You could get your short poems featured in one of our popular Top 10 posts or published in Every Day Poems. It’s easy.
Poets and Poems: Scott Cairns’ “Idiot Psalms”
Poets and Poems: Scott Cairns’s “Idiot Psalms” demonstrates his skill as one of the most accomplished poets writing about the human heart today.
Poets and Poems: Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘Selected Poems’
Poets and poems: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, wrote about the people she knew and the history always with us.
Go Ahead, Make Our Year: The FedEx Dare
FedEx has yet to make a delivery to the moon, but we figure if they are in the business of flying…it could happen
Poets and Poems: Robin Robertson’s “The Wrecking Light”
Poets and Poems: To read Robin Robertson’s “The Wrecking Light” is to walk in the poetry of identity, place, geography, mythology, geography — and more.
This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
The worst state to borrow books for fictional children, what memoir is not, revising everything from poetry to the NSA. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.
Poets and Poems: Amy Billone’s “The Light Changes”
Amy Billone’s “The Light Changes: Poems” begins with a young woman throwing herself in front of a train—not what you expect from poets and poems.
Poets and Poems: Grace Schulman’s “Without a Claim”
Grace Schulman’s new collection of poems “Without a Claim” creates quiet repose in the face of discontinuity. Can poets and poems make sense of this?
Poets and Poems: Dave Malone and “View from the North Ten”
Poets and Poems considers Dave Malone’s View from the North Ten, which uses a Rothko painting to evoke what exists in the land and heart of the Ozarks.
Spin Creativity Book: A Ticklish Excerpt
Where does a creativity book start? The best ones might begin in unexpected places. ‘Spin’ did.
Poets and Poems: Scott Edward Anderson’s “Fallow Field”
Poets and Poems highlights Scott Edward Anderson’s poetry collection “Fallow Field, ” which is rooted in nature, waiting for the reader to apply some mental tillage.
This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks
Did Jane Austen play video games? Did William Carlos Williams really eat the plums? Did Ben Franklin think flying was useful? It’s another week of the best in poetry and poetic things: Our Top 10 Poetic Picks.
Poets and Poems: Ted Hughes’ “Crow”
In Poets and Poems, we look at Ted Hughes’ “Crow, ” published in 1970, representing a significant shift for the poet and a milestone in 20th century poetry.