poetry

There is something magical about a well-written poem. Using nothing more than ink on paper, one can experience the same thrill as produced by a scene that costs millions of ...

When I shop at Martin’s, our local grocery store here in Front Royal, Virginia, I am often struck ...

With deep emotion, “Longer Thoughts,” the third book of poetry by Theresa Rodriguez, presents poems on such topics ...

In 1821, the poet John Keats—self-quarantined with a dear friend who served as his nurse—lay dying of tuberculosis, ...

In 1978, best-selling novelist John Gardner published “On Moral Fiction” in which he declared,  “My basic message throughout ...

We frequently hear the saying “Politics is downstream from culture,” but we should consider as well that culture ...

When, long ago, the Roman Empire reached far and wide across Europe, there was one land where the ...

The written word can be a powerful force, especially when we find ourselves in times of grief. Whether ...

Poets, like the rest of us, have varying attitudes toward death. Some urge resignation, others rage; some point ...

The old house was jammed and noisy, with people standing elbow to elbow in the bar, drinking beer, ...

When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my family was visiting my mom’s parents, who operated ...

2020. Now there’s a number with some heft to it. It offers gravitas, sounding like an Army tank or ...

In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...

For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...

“John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...

Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...

NEW YORK—A growing movement is calling for the return of meter and rhyme in poetry in a bid ...

“What is poetry?” A simple enough question, and if asked in sincerity would most likely be asked by ...

For a good number of years, I attended various poetry readings. Some were wonderful, some mediocre, and two ...

Writing is not only an art form, it can serve as a therapeutic outlet for frustration, creativity, and ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes this is true. A picture comes in handy ...

It was Lord Chesterfield, not a particularly profound thinker, who in 18th-century England correctly observed that "I am ...

The Northern Land   When the first glimmer of dawn appears As if heaven and earth have just ...

Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who never made ...

This drama of reading is beautifully conveyed in Percy Shelley's short lyric, taken from his play Prometheus Unbound.

Gordon Getty (b. 1933) is a distinguished composer of songs and operas inspired by poetry. “Beauty Come Dancing” ...