American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 20, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP The Catalan translator of Amanda ...
Olga Ravn’s “Fourth poem from the second continuation,” from her new novel, “My Work,” evokes motherhood as negative capability — the capacity, as John Keats described it, to dwell in “uncertainties, ...
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House recites his poem “Those Who Carry Us” during the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear at the Capitol in Frankfort, Ky, December 12, 2023. Silas Walker swalker ...
The syntax in this poem mimics the confusing and untidy emotional landscape of relationships. The first eight lines seem to intentionally reverse grammar, withholding the subject(s). A conventional ...