Though Fabio Morábito is one of the most celebrated poets in Mexico, Invisible Dog is the first edition of his work translated into English. Born to Italian parents in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1955, he ...
Permission” brings a memory of dog training, their pet now elderly: “I wonder if she remembers your scent — the cloud/ of ...
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...
In high school, I thought that poetry was a dead genre, both metaphorically and literally. A quick glance at my English classes’ reading lists had me thinking that the only poets were Shakespearean ...
Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a ...
A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...
David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer. By Jeff Gordinier Jeff Gordinier recently won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K.
From inaugural poems to the songs we listen to, poetry is all around us. We just have to allow ourselves to see it. Poetry can and has had a tremendous impact on our society. Still to this day, I ...
Emily Igwike, a senior at the University School of Milwaukee, was selected as the youth poet laureate by Woodland Pattern Book Center’s competitive program last year. Milwaukee’s first-ever youth poet ...
Matsiko Godwin Muhwezi’s latest poetry offering, ‘A Green Room Pentateuch ‘poems’ is five books in one - a 539-page volume is ...