In her poems—she wrote nearly 1,800, most only published after she died—Dickinson compared her life to everything from a funeral to a riddle to “a Loaded Gun,” but the astonishing range of ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...