Always one to use art to work through what’s happening in his life, Kanye West has penned a new poem titled “DEAD” that deals with the demise of his marriage to Kim Kardashian. The 44-year-old rapper ...

Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Maine in 1869. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times for "Collected Poems" (1921), "The Man Who Died Twice" (1924) and "Tristram" (1927). Robinson died in New York ...

Eric Kapitan’s title Darkness – Poems of Extreme Horror is pretty much a review in and of itself. Kapitan’s collection of horror poems is dark, gore-filled, but in some instances extremely beautiful ...

"Welcome to the night!" cries the opening poem in this celebration of nocturnal life. Everything from snails to mushrooms has a role to play and something different to say (the title is taken from a ...

Leontia Flynn is one of the best poets of her generation, despite being less widely known than many of the generation she ...

There is a modesty and reticence in these poems, so tender or rare for his gender. It is levity once called light. It is joy in minor splendor. Forest to fortress, intelligence is its ruler. Deathwish ...

When Selected Poems first appeared in 1959, Mark Van Doren wrote that Thomas Merton believed that “poetry at its best is contemplation—of things, and of what they signify.” At a time when poets are ...