Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...

Ken Teutsch published "The Parable of the Sheep and Goats" in the same edition. Ken is a nontraditional student who enrolled ...

Sonnet Mondal’s Clamour for a Handful of Rice emerges firmly within this lineage, but it expands its reach in ways that make the collection both urgent and formally intelligent ...

Just as Martha Hatch Balph’s book of poems, “The Entire Sky,” represents just that — both avian and otherwise — it represents ...

A month before COVID struck, I took a course in writing poetry. I chose poetry for the same reason I might have chosen opera singing or screenprinting: It was a subject I knew nothing about and in ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, is featured in a recent podcast interview and book ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Guest columnist Beth Ann Fennelly analyzes Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 for its enduring relevance. The sonnet describes a speaker's journey from self-pity and envy to finding joy through love. Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a sweet ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...