Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

My favorite poem is Dylan Thomas’ Fern Hill, in which Thomas talks about the inevitable changes in life and our shifting perspectives paralleling those changes. Maybe that’s an oversimplification that ...

A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

Gender roles are rapidly changing, though, and both men and women are being encouraged to develop a full range of emotional ...

As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson ...

“So I just started to write them. “The book is a poem written for my daughters, and it is, very basically, just a story of how I want them to live, and how I want to live with them, focusing on being ...