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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...