An interactive review of the periodic table -- composed of 119 haiku

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Kate Tempest

Smithsonian historian David Ward umpires the field of poetry, honoring the boys of spring, and calls a strike

Home was a dented silver trailer simply, without shine inside and out. The window view of the sea its evolving colors of cloud and fog filled her need for decoration. A square sky painting above th…

whisper, you who know to whisper intercessions (prayers on behalf of others) songs of love and songs of sorrow for the sailors from the depths of the tomorrow sleepy bibles rub their eyes in the Ba…

In our prayer flow we become the river, infused healing filling our words and phrases. Spirit poems from hearts renewed.       Poetry and Image © Copyright 2019, ancient skies

Oliver wasn't always appreciated by critics, but she was still one of the country's most popular poets.

I am reposting this list for International Women’s day. I would also like to ask for help from anyone who would like to aid in creating individual posts for each of the names in this list.

Many of the writers I work with fuss with their current story, poem, or essay forever, before moving on to the next story, poem, or essay they want to write. “I just want to read through one more time,” more than a few of my clients insist. “I want to be 100 percent sure before I send it out.” Now, I’m all for revision. In fact, I often insist that writing is 85 percent about revision. But once you’ve reviewed your piece for structure, full development of key moments, syntax and word choice, there’s not much point to reading it one more time.

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Steven Jesse Bernstein

It’s not surprising, perhaps, that Emil Cioran isn’t much read in England. Born in Romania, but winning a scholarship to the University of Berlin in 1933.

Stephen Colbert connects hip hop song verses to Tolkien via Gilbert and Sullivan

Crystal Good

Why we love Lucifer—and why Milton might have, too. By Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Kate Tempest

Some of the most searing poems by Korzhavin, who has died, at the age of ninety-two, focus on his decision to go into exile, to America, in the seventies. By Masha Gessen.

The writer, who died at 89, invested common words with the power of a constructive, shaping force.