Given his advancing age and lack of the usual track record, and wanting to design the books himself, he self-published them, in the tradition of Blake, Whitman and many other poets. As a graduate ...

we await the emergence of a new generation of war poets. Maurice Decaul, a former Marine infantryman whose poetry has been featured in The New York Times, told Task & Purpose, “Poetry can be ...

but poetry was the wild card that popped up. It was like, ‘You’re gonna teach, but you’re gonna use this to do it.’ I instantly knew this was my purpose.” Initially known as a Christian ...

We’re kids here. How do we know what the poet means?’” Harjo encouraged the audience to partake in poetry and its beauty without over analyzing the meaning or intent of the author, comparing the ...

She posted a few of her poems online. “I wanted to share them,” she said. “My purpose was not to write for show, but to write prayers for my own life. I was aware that I had an audience ...

Writing a poem is really exciting. words, feel round or sharp a certain word can, feel like a color inside my head, writing poetry sort of lit up these things that, like, I didn't realize were ...