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Benry Juno James ‘25 was inspired to write “dear wormwood,” while doing their homework for an intermediate poetry class last fall. Last week, the poem won the H. MacKnight Black Poetry Prize, an award ...

So bring some literary festivity to your handwritten Christmas cards, or add another fun activity to your family’s Christmas traditions, by reading these poems together over hot cocoa by the fire.

A group or individual poem about your family, an aspect of your family or why they are important to you You can submit a poem in written form or as an audio or video clip that is one-minute or less. A ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous ... In response, she was violently expelled from her family and community. One With Others is an experimental collage of voices that becomes a ...

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This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...