Video: 'You're looking at the gift wrap and not the jewel inside': 92-year-old shares moving poem on aging that will bring even the hardest of hearts to tears 92-year-old Wanda B. Goines is ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
There are lots of examples of poems where people disagree about what it means or what it is about – even the poet! – so don’t get too worried ... you never can be old, For as you were ...
My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for ... “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her ...