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For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.
Funny 'Roses Are Red' Poems 11. Roses are red, and apples are too, but violets are violet, violets aren’t blue 12. Roses are red, violets are too, I’m colorblind, what about you? 13. Roses are ...
2. Roses are red, violets are blue, I hate poetry, but I’m into you 3. Roses are red, violets are blue, if I were you, I’d want me too 4.
And one way you can express how much you love your dad is with a Father's Day poem. Since writing one yourself may seem daunting, we rounded up 45 poems for Father's Day you can use.
Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...
Grandma also grew hollyhocks and taught me how to make dolls out of them. You take a hollyhock, nip a bud off and insert that bud on another beautiful hollyhock flower that you’ve picked.
One Golden Summer is a follow-up to Carley Fortune's debut book Every Summer After and tells the story of Alice, a ...
John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing.
Author Nina Sharma’s book traces her decades-long relationship with poet Quincy Jones — a story that began during Philly’s ...