This is Sidewalk Stories, a collaboration between Crosscurrents and the East Bay’s Street Spirit newspaper where we hear from ...

Two poets were waiting for me when we pulled into a gas station somewhere on the Texas Panhandle. My husband and I were moving back to California after spending the first year of our marriage in ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

A Zimbabwean expat wrote the following poem which, although it relates more directly to Zimbabwe, contains some sentiments which are sure to resonate with those South Africans scattered abroad… who ...

Funny 'Roses Are Red' Poems. 11. Roses are red, and apples are too, but violets are violet, violets aren’t blue 12. Roses are red, violets are too, I’m colorblind, what about you?

Back when I chose my Classic poem, “I was in a Hurry” by Dunya Mikhail, I was struck by its powerful message of losing a country through the comparison of lottery tickets or Purgatory — and I was ...

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

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been penned throughout history, but these are the most famous poems ever written. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her two sons.

Matildas forward Mary Fowler has revealed she and Nathan Cleary plan on having several children, adopting and living on a farm when their respective sporting careers draw to an end.

Poems are, of course, just as integral a study of lyrics as anything else out there, so if you’re looking for a deep dive into your favourite musicians, find out if they’ve ever penned any poetry.