“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” That quote from former Poet Laureate of the United States of America Rita Dove comes to mind when I read poetry written by bereaved ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In honor of National Poetry Month, we asked readers to join us in ...

Occasionally my boss and I alert each other to poems that we've read recently and liked -- and can you IMAGINE how cool it is to have a boss who shares poem!?!? I have died and gone to heaven. But ...

Bards throughout time have figured out novel ways to twist words into tantalizing turns about love, loss, and lust — pretty much as soon as someone figured out how to recite poetry. Nature-lover, ...

Tess Vigeland: We’ve been asking our listeners to send in their favorite poems about money, work, business, really anything about the economy. An e-mail from Elizabeth Dodge in Culver City, Calif., ...

Sometimes, in the ocean of Boston College events that occur every single day, there emerges a hidden gem—a diamond in the rough, of sorts. This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for ...

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