The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...

This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. In this sonnet (there’s a dropped line in ...

like a bell rung backwards. Their necks push into different weather. I remember how that feels, Daneen Bergland's poems have appeared most recently in Denver Quarterly, Cerise Review, and Poet Lore, ...

Blending photography and poetry is the focus of the exhibition “The Gravel Underneath” that is opening at the Patton-Malott Gallery at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. today. The ...

In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting (real or imagined) with the abusive father. The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...