The coldness of Jennifer Nelson’s title stands in stark contrast to the warmth and vitality of the world evoked in the poem. By Jennifer ... even as the earth with all its thunderstruck, sun ...

WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Among the highlights was poet Allen Ginsberg, who delivered his poem “Earth Pollution,” marking the start of a long-standing connection between poetry ...

The speaker of the title poem brokenly invokes Into this realm ... some / arises out of the earth itself.” According to the earthworm, humans -- afraid of death, of entering the earth ...

EARTH upon earth hath woefully wrought; Now earth bringeth earth to nought; For earth on earth hath sought How earth to ruin be brought. Earth sendeth on earth the dearth Of exquisite youth and ...

As you can probably figure out from the title, it deals with the controversial ... It’s time to share the opening lines of my poem, “Before They Saw the Earth. They were sucked out before ...

Several segments bear the title “Lot’s Pillar,” as ... rapid hapless scattering of electricity,” the poem literally spans Heaven and Earth, moving on to “you unspooling tendrils of ...

The title of Calderwood’s book, “On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus,” comes from a famous Palestinian poem about al-Andalus, indicating it is both a place in history and a ...