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 ...

“Are We” is the title of the first poem and the beginning of the first sentence: Typing out these lines, I felt the dramatic kick of each word. I was reminded of Earth Took of Earth (1996 ...

You want Yusef Komunyakaa to write your poems for ... conjured up the title “Neon Vernacular” or “Talking Dirty to the Gods.” His latest, “Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth,” gives us ...

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 ...

On his new EP, The Sweat of Earth, a companion to the album, Amini continues to pry open the cracks. The title of the record comes from a poem by the 20th-century Mexican writer Xavier Villarrutia.

A Poem for Europa" which she unveiled at a reading at the Library of Congress on June 1, here on Earth. "The way I finally entered the poem was to point back to the earth," Limón said.