The world of poetry is wide—you can dig in to a longer poetry book or read short poems when time allows. And it’s an art form that pretty much anyone can appreciate; a lot of poets write ...

In twenty-three words, this poem tells us that life is not so much about success and failure as it is about love. Our children need the strength to go into the world and risk failure, and they can ...

They’re the scenery of his life; they’re what he uses to ground and animate poems. The work in “Cemeteries and Galaxies” is long-lined, brooding and sometimes wistful.