Southerners know that beauty isn’t about looks. You don’t find it in glancing at someone, but in talking to them, connecting with them, understanding them, and comprehending what they love and the ...

in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...

Vivian Stolz, a 19 year old college student in Rochester, wrote this poem after taking many walks on campus this fall, inspired by the brilliant fall weather, colors, and vivacity. She regrets that ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at St. Gregory's High School. I didn't know him personally, as I did several of ...

Jane Hirshfield, the author of eight books of poetry and two essay collections, has two books out from Knopf this month: “The Beauty: Poems” (107 pages; $26) and “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...

After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...

The title of this week's poem, "The Line of Beauty" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, will be familiar to many readers as the title of the fine novel by Alan Hollinghurst, which won the Booker prize in 2004.

Laura Kasischke's prose poem "Look," from Space, in Chains, opens, "Look! I bear into this room a platter piled high with the rage my mother felt for my father!" The brooding agency of that anger ...

The danger of familiarity is that it's comfortable. And when something becomes familiar it stops being remarkable. Without the work of mindfulness, the little noticings go first and quietly accumulate ...

Had Henry Howard lived past 30, it might have been he rather than Shakespeare who gave his name to the sonnet form in which they both specialised Together with Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, earl of ...