The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...

Bonnie Lyons is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her poems, articles and literary interviews have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, including The Paris ...

This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. In this sonnet (there’s a dropped line in ...

you catch a glimpse of yourself is in Polish. Behind you a man quickly walks by, nearly shouting into his cell phone. Then a woman at a dreamier pace, carrying a just-bought bouquet upside-down. All ...

like a bell rung backwards. Their necks push into different weather. I remember how that feels, Daneen Bergland's poems have appeared most recently in Denver Quarterly, Cerise Review, and Poet Lore, ...

Artist Leah Labat painted this portrait of her great-grandfather, the late trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, using his favorite dark-roast coffee. (Courtesy Leah Labat) At Lionel Ferbos' funeral services this ...

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Blending photography and poetry is the focus of the exhibition “The Gravel Underneath” that is opening at the Patton-Malott Gallery at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. today. The ...

In 1860, writing the third of six editions of his book “Leaves of Grass,” behemoth of American poetry Walt Whitman proclaimed what would follow him. “I announce greater offspring, orators, days, and ...

Visions of Homeland and Diaspora," a collection edited by Gassia Armenian and published by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, ...