On the eve of our nineteenth year, the sky cracked, its molten innards sloshing to and fro, its boiling yolk slipped out as our lips cried for home. “Stand, stand, stand,” said the boy. “If ...

The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

It's a love poem to this friend that's gone but then you realise at the end of the poem that the friend never existed in the first place so then it becomes an ode to childhood and to losing parts ...

In this well selected and compulsively readable anthology, Harvard English ... the glorious ode to genderqueer sex “Suits and Ties” by Samuel Ace. Danez Smith’s 2022 poem “Waiting for ...