Featured Artist: Sam Houty
I am thrilled to welcome back poet Sam Houty (1:2 Water), this time with three graceful and delicate poems: White noise asylum, about the immigration process in the UK; Dimensions, …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it …
Featured Artist: Kuzhur Wilson
Kuzhur Wilson is a leading voice in modern Indian poetry and created the first blog for Malayalam poetry. After living as a journalist in Dubai for a decade, he returned …
Quote for Today: Lord Byron
Thus sung, or would, or could, or should have sung, The modern Greek, in tolerable verse; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young, Yet in these times he …
Quote for Today: Frank Bidart
The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make someone or something live again. Both …
Quote for Today: Peter Ackroyd
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we …