A few minutes, a few lines, and poet for the people Jacqueline Suskin can offer her customers hope, confidence or a vision of who they are. And it has changed her life.

The poem is short, clocking in at just 149 characters in total, easily cut to under 140. It is iconic, quickly recognized if faintly remembered by anyone who took a high school English class. Its ...

This poem reminds us that so much about grief is in the fragments of memory and detail that a loved one leaves behind. Note the double meaning in the first line of “you fixed me” and “you ...

When my love for poetry took hold, poems about fathers were the first to enchant me. As a high school student, I reread Sylvia Plath's harrowing poem "Daddy," excited by her audacity.

'Give me your tired, ... The poem’s subject, and the cause of most of her life’s work, most likely came naturally to her. She knew what it was like to be an outsider.

Quite sensibly biographers and critics have always thought that Plath’s most famous poem, “Daddy,” was about her father. I would like to float out the theory that it is really about her mother.

Our poetry community had formed strong walls around us, supporting us. Perhaps that’s why the poem that is most meaningful to me is “Moisés,” or “Moses,” by Luis Alberto de Cuenca.

Msgr. Charles Fink reads the poem "Bury Me With Soldiers," which he wrote as a tribute to the U.S. servicemembers who served during the Vietnam War. Today, the poem is read at the funerals of ...

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