“The When Time” is the title of a poem by West Indian poet Martin Wylde Carter (June 7, 1927 – December 13, 1997) from the collection Poems of Succession (New Beacon Books, 1978).

28 August 2024 ... ‘Goblin Market’ was the title poem of Christina Rossetti’s first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it, modern readers have found it ...

THE FAR FIELD by Theodore Roefhke. 95 pages. Doubleday. $3.50. “What I love is near at hand, / Always, in earth and air,” Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What ...

The title poem, Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds, for example, offers the reader a glimpse of St. Thomas Aquinas preparing a commentary on the Old Testament proscription against various fowl.

The book’s title poem is one of the clearest indications that Lerner is growing more willing to accept his position as a capital-P poet, one willing to speak publicly from his private position.

Nick Laird’s formally impressive, angry, funny Up Late (Faber £14.99) is equally engaged with today’s world, its unforgettable title poem holding a mirror to present-day death: “… ...

The title poem was a favorite among the Sun’s readers, and it remains Crane’s most republished poem. The reason isn’t hard to find. In ballad-meter quatrains — four-foot lines alternating with ...

The 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including those by Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Bukowski, Brecht and more.

In the title poem of his latest collection, “ Meet Me at the Lighthouse,” Dana Gioia (b. 1950) turns his deep feeling for Los Angeles, the city of his birth, to a memento mori — a contemplation of the ...

Before we turn to spring and a new crop of books, we look back today on some interesting poetry by Minnesotans, some from experienced writers, others from newcomers. “Jordemoder: Poems of a ...