In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls ... Even the form of the poem is in steely couplets. “You can stop,” the speaker says, toward the end of the poem. Note that this ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

Through this special monthly column in partnership with Real Change, we encourage you to bear witness to the creativity and resilience of systems-impacted young people, who are so often relegated to ...

Especially since nobody likes his self-portraits very much, and they certainly don’t command a flattering price tag at auction. Saoirse Ronan reads Christy Brown's poetry in the new documentary ...

The book has thirty-one poems in total, each reflecting a unique experience. Consider this passage from Self-Portrait as Ocean Bed: “transformation of self, mud-soaked, tainted, stained with green ...

Shara McCallum is the author of six books, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

"Self-Portrait as Othello is a book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and technical flair. "As the title would suggest, the poetry is delivered with ...