Poetry Month

• Wrestling With an Icon in Malcolm Cowley’s ‘Ernest’

  • Nicholas Clairmont
  • May 5, 2017

• Your Favorite Poems on People and Power

  • Rosa Inocencio Smith
  • April 30, 2017

• Opening Up to Poetry With Rachel Zucker's ‘I’d Like a Little Flashlight’

  • Sacha Zimmerman
  • April 29, 2017

• The Violence of a Ticking Clock in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Monologue at 3 a.m.’

  • Tanvi Misra
  • April 28, 2017

• The Quiet, All-Consuming Love in Pablo Neruda's Sonnet XVII

  • Natalie Delgadillo
  • April 27, 2017

• The Language of Apology in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas

  • Natasha Balwit
  • April 26, 2017

• Coming to Terms With Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’

  • Joseph Frankel
  • April 25, 2017

• The Fact of Feeling in Robert Frost’s ‘Directive’

  • Jezelle Lanie
  • April 24, 2017

• Passion and Paradox in John Donne’s ‘Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God’

  • Daniel Tucker Moynihan
  • April 23, 2017

• A Snapshot of Enduring Love in Thom Gunn’s ‘The Hug’

  • Feargus O'Sullivan
  • April 21, 2017

• Loneliness and Longing in Agha Shahid Ali’s ‘Stationery’

  • Natalie Chang
  • April 20, 2017

• The Motherly Pep Talk in Sarah Kay’s ‘B’

  • Carly Spraggins
  • April 19, 2017

• Warsan Shire’s Lesson ‘For Women Who Are “Difficult” to Love’

  • Emily M. Anderson
  • April 18, 2017

• Ada Limón’s ‘State Bird’ and the Two-Body Problem

  • Natasha Balwit
  • April 17, 2017

• Your Favorite Poems on Hard Times

  • Rosa Inocencio Smith
  • April 16, 2017

• The Wild Romp of Abraham Lincoln’s ‘The Bear Hunt’

  • Andrew Small
  • April 16, 2017

• The Trauma of Migration in Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene

  • Tanvi Misra
  • April 15, 2017

• Radical Hope in Adrienne Rich’s ‘An Atlas of the Difficult World’

  • Jessie Li
  • April 14, 2017

• The Grand Finale in James Weldon Johnson’s ‘Go Down, Death’

  • Jordan T. Jones
  • April 13, 2017

• The Subtle Horror of Margaret Atwood’s ‘This Is a Photograph of Me’

  • Lenika Cruz
  • April 12, 2017

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