Born Parsi, Sufi of heart and Christian in suffering, Buddhist in his detachment, and Hindu in his sensuality, Hoshang Merchant’s life and poetry weave together ...

Through the verses of these poems, you can pour out your soul: Poem 1 The echoes of your absence resonate in my empty chest, while my love, unanswered, gets lost in the abyss of silence.

I adored the way authors were able to evoke emotion and take me on a journey through words on a page. I wanted that gift. I dreamed that I could write something that allows anyone who reads it to get ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

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As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well ... added a few of my favorites as ...

The self-published book is a collection of poems that Kotaev has kept and wrote throughout the years. The book includes poems about love, adventure and other life experiences. “It’s just my bare mind, ...