When something terrible happens, I choose a poem to share with my students, one that might offer a little solace. I learned this trick in college. After the 9/11 attacks, one of my professors ...

Long-Distance Love Poems for Him . When he's away, whether short or long-term, you miss everything about him. But even in his ...

conversations between sometimes willing partners. The way your eyes twinkled when you spoke of fiction. Victoria Pool is the Creative Writing Director at the North East School of Arts. She spends ...

We have no choice but to experience joy in that moment. The difficulty of the poet’s life is how to look forward to the next poem—how to know that another one is indeed on the way. I have written ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.

'Social Distance': A Community-Style Poem To Help You Feel Less Isolated Last month, poet Kwame Alexander asked you to write a poem inspired by two paintings of women looking out of a window.

He Wrote A Poem About It — And Hope Manas Ray, a biochemist in Cambridge, Mass., wrote "Praying From A Distance" about the toll COVID-19 has taken on his family in India. He submitted it as part ...

A poem that allows us to become preoccupied with our own quiet thoughts. ... His final collection, “Middle Distance,” was published by W.W. Norton in 2020. Illustration by R.O. Blechman.

Long-distance relationships can be a challenge. You're in love for a reason, after all, and when you're apart, the distance can fill you with longing. Our long-distance relationship poems capture ...