Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems Collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illus. by G. Brian Karas, Candlewick, $21.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4249-5 ...

Poetry from Daily Life: You can follow a form and still end up with your very own poem. Sandy Asher. ... Her first publication was a poem in a small, literary magazine in 1964, ...

The very first poem of Harlem Shadows, “The Easter Flower,” situates the speaker as “a pagan” who worships at the “shrine” of the “resurrection flower ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. ... In truth, one hurt me.” Often, the last line of the poem also folds back into the very first. Through this construction, ...

This was my very first spoken word poem, what I hoped was a sad but funny ode to a lost friendship and a former friend who loved Wes Anderson movies. But I was filled with doubts and felt like an ...

Capó-García: On my syllabus, I would always put this line by Lucille Clifton, where she said that the very first poem is when someone emerged from a cave and went into the savanna and just said ...

Poetry is maybe the most human of all human endeavors. One would think this is one of the very few fields that artificial intelligence could not take over. But according to a recent study, this is ...