The heartbreaking loss of lives in Newtown, Conn., moved the Louisiana-born poet Yusef Komunyakaa to put his emotions into words. The global distinguished professor of English at New York University ...

So many of my friends and family are tumbling about and getting injured (myself included) that I felt that I should write a cheerful poem on the subject. I’ve named it Mercy.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the mid-'60s, Dubie has spent the last few decades ensconced at Arizona State. The clean, Stevensian, surreal declaration that has served as jumping-off ...

'I believe that you accepted this fate in the hope that someday, we, the people, learn not to accept a fate that isn't ours' The poem below was written for Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on Indonesian ...