Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O’Donnell ... a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most likely thought that ...
She will be funny, ironic, wicked, or sympathetic, with her soft Oxfordshire burr. Always a class act, but warmly earthed. Particularly expressive with her movements was With these Hands, about her ...
MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...
Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those things we love to treat as battened down—stuff like doctrine and ...