It is in the first line of the very first poem in which he struck the keynote of his defiant chant: "I celebrate ... life. In the latter part of November, 1863, a fortunate circumstance placed me ...

I tried to call for help, but she didn't hear me. The look ... what kind of celebration it was. It was a celebration of finally recognising what the road of your life looks like.

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.

Dear Readers: Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season.

Respondents came to think of the poems they had memorized as treasured possessions, called forth for comfort and counsel through life’s vicissitudes ... “Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” is ...

Dublin resident and author Monique Rardin Richardson has published a collection of poetry, “Pieces of Me,” that she describes as a reflection of her life growing up as the half-Mexican ...

just essentially making me more comfortable being in the civilian world," he said. Dombrowski leads a program called Verses for Vets, an initiative by Arizona State University that offers veterans the ...

I first read Tomas Tranströmer in a class taught by the late Lucie Brock-Broido—either the poetry ... full of life (the children are scared to sleep alone upstairs—what makes me safe makes ...

It was supposed to be a moment for her to privately take stock of her life. And let me remind you ... a point in turning 35 at all if you don’t celebrate it? Melodramatic, you say?