If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the afternoon breezes are doing their best to hold off the sure-to-come heat ...

The book's release marks a significant milestone in Carey's writing career, fulfilling a long-held ... her ailing mother. As her mother’s health declined, Carey turned to poetry — not ...

The latest volume continues to feature some of the very finest contemporary literary work, with six short stories, a novella, ...

The strength of her visual imagery matched scenes framed by the windshield of a truck I drove, after the school day ... (ACME photo) Her mother was proud of the poems Gwendolyn started writing ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

"Some people will say, you know, 'That's been a long time ago ... SHE EVEN WROTE A POEM TITLED "OUR COMMON BOND" FOR THOSE -- LIKE HER -- WHO LOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT DAY.

And why was this exclusive to your poetry? CJC: I think there are two reasons. The first is that I found it aesthetically beautiful, because I went by my middle name and my mother’s maiden name.

Stay away from him, my mother said to me when ... I write in my journal every single day, and sometimes I have to write terrible things, really rageful, horrible poems, really rageful, horrible ...