Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words that conjure the image of a bird. But don’t read this simply as a nature poem —it has a deeper meaning.

While this short poem is far from being romantic enough to use as a love quote, it’s a clever wordplay on the masterpiece of deception. And here’s an interesting tidbit about its poet, Walter ...

In her first book of poems, “Helen of Troy, 1993,” Maria Zoccola has beautifully and resourcefully reimagined this mythic material and relocated it to Sparta, Tenn., which is a real town ...

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.