The Torch3h
How a St. John’s Sophomore Turned Her Poetry Into a Published Work
For St. John’s University student Sanaa Marie Omondi, achieving a major milestone went beyond completing her first semester ...
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Three Books to Read If You're Scared of Poetry
Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.
America Magazine1d
The Emily Dickinson poem about love that you should read
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
Salish Current1d
Poetry, for a ‘churning, burning world’
“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...
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Woman pens poem about Petersburg, a city she has grown to love.
I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...
Mother Jones1d
Poet Aja Monet’s Cure for Loneliness
She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
The Paris Review5d
The Image of the Doll: Tove Ditlevsen’s Worn-Out Language
If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...