Serious poetry involves an intensive and extensive use of all mental processes like insight, concept formation, cognition, sensations, impulses, judgments, memory, associations, etc. Poets' perception ...

THE first collections have come out. Slender, sometimes oddly titled, published often under obscure imprints like Jargon Books, Migrant Books, the Talisman Press, or sometimes by university presses ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

Since 9/11, folks have been saying we need poetry more than ever, but perhaps now we need poetry even more than "more than ever." 2014 will go down as the year of Ferguson and Eric Garner, of the CIA ...

Tom Sheppard finds inspiration all around him. From Santa’s red suit to the nature of Heaven and Hell, Sheppard sees beauty, truth and amusement. He began documenting his insights into a variety of ...

Accompanying Kennedy's forthcoming selected (serious) poems, this agreeably cantankerous, occasionally laugh-out-loud-funny volume gathers brief parodies, barbed rhymes, naughty couplets and other ...

PATERSON — Ashley Peralta, an eighth grader at Paterson’s School 18, said she tried to hide the dark, depressing thoughts that haunted her after her mother died of cancer two years. Eventually, the ...