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“Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach.” Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry,” now the oldest monthly ...

One hundred years ago this month, Chicago was not thought of as the planet’s pig renderer. And its shoulders, hunched or held back, square or rounded, big or small or somewhere in the broad middle, ...

Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). We live ...

100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber, priced £10.99 (Kindle edition £6.47). Available June 28 GIVEN the universal high esteem in which poet and Nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney is held, the ...

To mark what would have been his 100th birthday, three pieces from his 100-part ‘war poem’ that is also about a forbidden love Three poems from The New Divan 1. Hafiz, old nightingale, what fires ...

Kenneth Rexroth was heavily influenced by the moods and modes of Japanese poetry, which in turn reached those who were influenced by him. Named by Time Magazine as the “father of the Beats” and a ...

We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...

"Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach." Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry, now the oldest monthly ...