In an age dominated by fleeting content, poetry emerges as a quiet force with profound cognitive benefits. Recent research ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

As for the poem itself, it appears to be a reworking of a selection of stanzas that were originally published in 2001 in the book "When I Loved Myself Enough." ...