But a good friend or romantic partner is a balm ... one of the most celebrated short poems about life, to remind readers of ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

I know good teachers who do that at the beginning ... It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three or four.

but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I doubt I’m alone in this). Something in me resists the straightforward glow of good love, in poetic form, perhaps because its purity is so difficult ...

In a contextual way, the simmering, inventive, and significant poems in Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection I’ll Have It ...