I free the trap door of the house and brush everything into my hand. My friend is wound round the next fencepost: her leg hooked, her foot anchoring, her arm flinging up and down like an oil derrick.

The first of the American Romantics, author of such poems as “Thanatopsis” and “March,” which appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on the second of that month this year, William Cullen Bryant ...

With Dorianne Laux I’ve shared the experience of having a bird enraged at her reflection in a window. Laux lives in North Carolina and this is her third poem to be published in this column. Are you ...

Splendor on a branch of withered oak. imagining, making — was about joy. Laura Quinn Guidry's poems have appeared in journals, anthologies and “In These Latitudes — Ten Contemporary Poets” from Wings ...