“The Snow Man” appeared in Poetry magazine in 1921 and then in the 1923 “Harmonium,” the first book of poetry from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). The book was not a success, and Stevens made sure with ...

If we do not end exactly where we begin, still everything does come to a conclusion, and sometimes that’s near the place it started. All journeys need an ending. All circles long to close. Today we ...

William Carman is a first grader in Northfield. His grandparents are Rochester residents and submitted this poem on his behalf. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every ...

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A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

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Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...