Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on ...

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 ...

Hughes was a major poet, novelist, short story writer ... and Good News about the Earth: New Poems (1972), Clifton explores the realities of African-American urban life, drawing from her own ...