The poem my ­fingers had landed on was called "Goodbye," and it was about someone saying farewell to the world. Right then, I knew I could find peace in his loss.

Domestic calm and the chance to catch your breath carry more meaning here beside the earlier life Betts recalls in other poems: Incarcerated as a teenager, Betts (“Felon,” “Bastards of the ...

Beyond that, the Mississippi has a pretty low profile in “River Poems.” Maybe the Mississippi, more of a workhorse than a show horse, has been easy for poets to overlook.

A poem for Sunday. I was born for betrayal— When my mother left me in the orphanage, I invented love with strangers. And if it wasn’t there, I made it be there, until the crash, the revelation.

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

The magpies gaze at us, still waiting. River stones are listening. But all we can say now is mercy, please rock me. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RAZ: The poet Yusef Komunyakaa reading his poem "Rock Me ...

A Japanese poem inspired this painting of a family relaxing by a river after a long day Lisa Rotondo-McCord | Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art. Jun 28, 2021 ...

DelRay Sanders could identify with concerns about the Red River flood this spring. Neighbors: A poem for the flooding Red River - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports ...

This poem — set in the countryside near his hometown of Madison, Minn. — was included in Bly's first collection, "Silence in the Snowy Fields" (1962). Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River I ...

You counted days by their cold silences..... At night, wolves and men with bleeding hands ...