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Spiritual poetry that looks at the meaning of life

Have you ever wondered about the meaning of life from a spiritual point of view? In the poetry anthology Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of...

Maurice Manning, a self-proclaimed “defender of place and local culture,” celebrates the uncommon and wonderful aspects of rural life...

In Pleasure, poet Brian Teare repossesses one of our oldest stories of identity: the fall from innocence. Pleasure contains an intertwined...

Anis Shivani has once again rocked the poetry blogosphere by trashing other poets. This time he does some serious deep cuts on Sharon Olds, Jorie...

Atsuro Riley's rich, jangling, spry, feisty sound-paintings in Romey's Order make reading his poetry like taking a synesthetic drug:...

Matthew Zapruder's third collection of poetry, Come On All You Ghosts, fully engages humor, whimsy, and inventiveness in a game of chicken with...

Suck on the Marrow's subject, the lives of U.S. slaves between 1831-1850, is potentially fraught with poisonous emotion. Yet Camille Dungy...

In 2008, Philip Schultz was co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection Failure: Poems. This collection of 29 short poems and 1...

In 1980, eight years before the beloved, and now defunct-in-print Onion, was founded, Paul Fericano and Elio Ligi co-created Yossarian Universal...

St. Louis is snowed in. Poets may be inspiredto write about the snow, but they're not going out in it. Audiences missed out on the third...