Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...
One very simple short poem is “The Red Wheelbarrow.” This clean-cut gem by Jewish American poet and doctor William Carlos Williams invites us into a moment of mindfulness and appreciation of ...
in "A Rain Dream," "The Snow Shower," "The Night Journey of a River," and particularly in "The Song of the Sower," a truly American poem, honoring the wide extended labors of the husbandman ...
T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...