In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start a new poem.

Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

This is a short poem with immeasurable ... of his refusal to let this handicap ruin his life, the full poem says in bold words that you, and only you, are in charge of your destiny.

For unadulterated sensuality, I refer you to any number of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, although Fáilte bhéal na Sionna don iasc does end on a surprisingly tender note: I know of no short poem ...

Thoughts In Night Quiet, the old chestnut about homesickness by Tang poet Li Bai, is a simple classical Chinese poem I have known by heart most of my life ... I have realised only recently ...

“True Life,” a collection of verse by the Polish ... and declines a particular intellectual-historical source in a poem of 11 short lines, entitled “Enlightenment.” ...