One poem begins with someone discussing how to make cocaine in a bathtub and ends with Shakespeare. In “The Life of a Hunter,” her first poetry collection, M. Michelle Robinson ’01 juxtaposes ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Michael and Carl Lund grew up in a house with a priceless document on a hall wall: an unpublished poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams. The poem, “About a Little Girl,” is ...

The poem contrasts the vividness of the pilot's moment of choice with the disappointment of his life afterwards. First section is full of vivid impressions of the senses. Colour is explored; ...

How It Is: Selected Poems by Neil Shepard, Salmon Poetry, 178 pages. $25. Every book is a new adventure — or something like that — but Neil Shepard‘s How It Is: Selected Poems gathers an unusually ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...