In a poem of mine, I once borrowed the lines “If you can’t be free, be a mystery” from Rita Dove’s “Canary.” Using the lines, I possessed, for a moment, a rare kind of clarity. You ...

The moment when he told me, after 30 years, that he had been unfaithful and had been wildly unfaithful to me for years. In that one moment, the life I so cherished with my love, my best friend ...

Sometimes a poem just strikes a precise moment. “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris, feels utterly necessary for our time — a poem celebrating minor, automatic graciousness within a ...

In a "window moment," the poet says, a work shifts and expands: "By glancing for a moment at something else, the field of the poem becomes larger. What's in the room with the poem is bigger." ...

The poem is enjoying a bump in cultural relevance as the world sits at home and considers its surroundings. Why your timeline is possibly suddenly sprinkled with verse.

Milan Patel, a 17-year-old senior at Palm Harbor University High School in Palm Harbor, Fla., shared this poem that he sent in with his application to the University of Florida’s honors program.