Have you ever read anything that you connected with so much to the point it felt like it was speaking directly to you? A piece that spoke to you in such a wa... Read More
The poem “Minnehaha” by Tyehimba Jess is complicated and has many layers of context. First, it is an ekphrastic poem, meaning it responds to another wo... Read More
“Substantial Planes” by A.R. Ammons is a really short poem, coming in at a cool twenty-one words total. As a matter of fact, it is a poem from Ammons book Th... Read More
The poem “INDECISION” by Ai(not to be mistaken for ‘artificial intelligence’) comes from her book of poetry titled Cruelty. Compared to other poems in the bo... Read More
The poem’s title, “Your Dog Dies”, written by Raymond Carver, sounds like it would entail something depressing and heartbreaking, but something about the blu... Read More
Mary Oliver’s poem “The World I Live In” clocks in at only two stanzas:
“I have refused to live
locked in the orderly house of
reasons and proofs.
... Read More
If I had to narrow down Li-Young Lee’s poetry to a simple description, I would say it is discerning. This quality of Lee’s poetry is especially present in hi... Read More
