Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating ... once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English ...

Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the women ... the dearest – that I loved the best / Are strange – nay, rather, stranger than the rest’.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, one of the most celebrated voices in modern American literature, used her poetry as a profound medium to explore themes of identity, resilience, love, and the ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of ... this poem was attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, but in his book Author Unknown: On The Trail Of Anonymous, Professor ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

He especially loves the books he co-authors with ... writing is reading and it's a good idea not to judge yourself with what ...