like threads on cut shirt sleeves, stars tingle, whole galaxies for the ... was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The American ...

The Metaphysical poet John Donne was renowned for the passion of his love poetry; but he can be cynical, too, without losing his poetic panache.

That’s what Beth Copeland found while writing “Falling Lessons: Erasure One,” a poem that explored her father ... sensation, sunflowers, a yellow star. He lives in the garden without ...

Six poems to mark the end of daylight saving time. Light Verse It’s just five, but it’s light like six. It’s lighter than we think. Mind and day are out of sync. The dog is restless.

In the latest installment of "Village Voice" — Boston Public Radio's recurring conversation about how poetry can help us better understand the news of the day — poet Richard Blanco shared poems about ...

If I could choose an image to represent this shadow conceit, it would not be falling, but something more horizontal and glitchy. The best poems in The Book of Falling, and its most original and ...