O Life!” is the poem to read when life seems pointless or without purpose. Why does any of it matter? Because you exist. Because you continue to contribute to the world. And that’s enough.

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 “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.

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 ...