Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is not much different from that of the air. You scarcely know, until you feel the undertow tug at you, ...

Learn how to get your ideas from your head and into your poem. Anyone can write poetry. You can write poetry about whatever you feel like, in whatever way you want, for whatever reason you choose.

else, and is like the components of everything. Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is ...

to the outer reaches, fled and ever-fixed, adrift with our space-faring dead. Mark Granier’s poems have appeared in the New Statesman, Poetry Review and Carol Ann Duffy’s online pandemic ...

Literal language is when we say what we mean. Like “The news van is parked outside,” or “Meeting new people makes me nervous.” Figurative language can be anything that doesn't mean what it says ...

The parable of the widow and the unjust judge might give us a radical look at the face of God. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...