Poetry Unbound

“I still have the best three-point shot of any Canadian poet born before 1943” is one of t... more

Loving in the face of violence, danger, and distress is an act of defiance, as demonstrate... more

Sanah Ahsan’s evocative “Ramadan’s Greeting” brings us into the thoughts and experiences o... more

“O come, in any way you want” is the first line in Kevin Hart’s marvelous, mystical “Praye... more

Too many of us left high school thinking that a poem could be taken seriously only if it w... more

What is there to say or do when the life of a loved one has been upended and devastated? S... more

Dante Micheaux’s rich and rollicking poem “Theologies for Korah” is written on the occasio... more

“How could there be a war in this city?” is the plaintive question that starts Oksana Maky... more

In Armen Davoudian’s casually intimate poem “Coming Out of the Shower”,  mother and son pe... more

Some religions and some people have very specific ideas about “grace”, and that includes p... more

In fewer than two dozen lines, Cyrus Cassells’s poem “Jasmine” offers readers a multisenso... more

W.S. Merwin’s “For The Anniversary of My Death” is a slim, precise poem — just 13 lines ma... more

Words can’t quite fully capture the activity, oddity, and awe that is everywhere around us... more

Marie Howe’s poetry shimmers with the keen attention she pays to language: the language of... more

“Spending time in hell is not my idea of something that one should do,” says poet Lorna Go... more

Have you ever gotten consumed by watching a couple argue in public and trying to decipher ... more

Even though Palestinian-American Fady Joudah’s poem is sparingly titled “[...],” an ellips... more

Benjamin Zephaniah’s urgent, imperative “To Michael Menson” was written when he was a poet... more

Carmen Giménez’s poem “Ars Poetica” is a stunning waterfall of words, a torrent of dozens ... more