"The first poets that I attached to, the first one that I felt was somehow characterologically close to me was the French poet Baudelaire," explains poet C. K. Williams. Watch the video >
Spotlight Poet Susan Wheeler The author of several books of poetry and a novel, Wheeler writes poems that speak in the "the jangling discourse of our nation."
Spotlight Poem Even the Rain
by Agha Shahid Ali What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? . . .
Spotlight Essay Poems of the American Revolution The American Revolution inspired a vast body of literature, much of which attempts to allegorize the fledgling nation's birth and cast its genesis in the language of archetypal struggles and timeless human themes.
Here is a sampling of the countless poems, both classic and contemporary, that deal with loneliness, anonymity, and solitary thought. Some describe voyeuristic wanderings of poets; others explore the exhilaration of being a human alone in nature.
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