Last night, when I was looking for a subject for this column, but didn’t know which one, I was lucky enough to receive this request from Guanaíra Amaral, on the other side of the world, from Oceania: ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

“Poetry is life distilled,” said longtime Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This is concise; but what does it mean? It means, as I understand it, that poetry is a place where the rich ...

In this moving elegy to his infant daughter, Saddiq Dzukogi reminds us of how complex grief can be. The body’s responses to grief offer a way for us to cope with its deep pain. Here, the poem, “So ...

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...

Sara Whym explores grief, identity, and creative awakening through a hybrid narrative of dreams, memory, and emotional ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

This poem appeared in my inbox, one of the several daily poems I subscribe to. I like to have a poem brought to me, one that I might not have read before. Sometimes I like them, sometimes not, but I ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images About 18 months ago, at age 79, I gave ...