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Poem of the Day: ‘On a Certain Lady at Court’ Alexander Pope’s poem presents us with an admirable woman, a subject which in the hands of any subsequent generation — in Wordsworth’s hands, say — would ...

Waiting for her wandering friends. She sure has stood the test. Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson.

Today’s Poem of the Day shows us Irving’s facility with verse. “A Certain Young Lady” is a funny poem in part because it channels the voice of the nineteenth-century gossip column, the sort of voice ...

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...

POEM ON A WOMAN STIRS ALL ENGLAND; Watson's "Woman with the Serpent's Tongue" Identified in Very High Life. MAKES AND UNMAKES MEN Pitiless Picture of a Distinguished Lady, Who Was a Member of "The ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

In her poem “Lady Lazarus”, she imagined her corpse, surrounded by a grubby spectacle. “The peanut-crunching crowd / Shoves in to see / Them unwrap me hand and foot–– / The big strip ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.