Some people feel numb to cope with death, while others may be angry about feeling like they’ve been abandoned. Specifics will help your poem stand out from a generic one. Imagine how you could ...

It’s possible that this description inspired the Gascon poet Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas for his poem La Semaine ... The ...

I’ve spent the past few days in alternating states of shock, numb acceptance, anger, grief, and, above all else, exhaustion.

Poetry is known to draw from a place of truth ... The car wrapped around two oaks, and left her paralyzed, numb from the ...

Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, ...

“Numb” is one of Linkin Park’s most famous singles, and one of the more successful hard rock cuts of the past several decades. Now, it returns to four different tallies in the U.K., as ...

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time during the U.S.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...