Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate students on poetry they resonate with.

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. I often hear from peers and students that ...

"Who are you trying to strangle? And what god are you serving?" Hertgen wrote in one poem published to Facebook in September 2024. "I can see the knives sharpening. I can hear the arrows whizzing.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

When Carolyn Cushing began her term as Easthampton’s poet laureate, she and her fellow poets turned heads by staging a poetry reading in the parking lot of a local supermarket. “We were there ...

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Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay tells PEOPLE that Hamel "gave it to her a day early and she read the poem and went to bed and later died peacefully in her sleep.” Alexis Jones is a ...