These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

"I am an individual who is deeply concerned with the inequities as we all are, but ill equipped to solve any of them," Tom Waits explained. By Tyler Jenke Tom Waits has added his talents to the ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

The poems, too, are deceptive ... incorporate “the very irregular accent and measure” of human speech. “I am never more pleased than when I can get these into strained relation,” he ...

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...