When I immigrated from Veracruz, Mexico, to New York at 10 years old, I genuinely thought I would see everyone from my homeland again. I was told our move to the U.S. was going to be temporary, a year ...
Garfield’s mother, Lynn, passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2019. He talked about his grieving process with Anderson Cooper on a recent episode of “All There Is.” I encourage you to listen to their ...
Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...
From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.
Author Anne Michaels challenges the traditional view of history as a series of grand events, instead suggesting that our inner lives are just as monumental.
7, such as “What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike,” if this poem was to be written today, it wouldn’t have the sentence: “sit in the inner hallway of the house / away from ...