Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

"Let Them,” a poem by Cassie Phillips, spoke directly to my heart in a healing way.

What are you getting from this poem? PARINI: Well, first of all, let me say - you had a clip from "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" - Frost is really the great American poet of winter.

What a Poetic Mind Can Teach Us About How to Live The poet Jane Hirshfield invites us to embrace habits of deep noticing and attention — and observe the beauty that unfolds.

Nowhere else in the Bible are the sensual pleasures of love relished with such joy; nowhere else is sexual desire spelled out with so much verve. And yet sexuality is never blatant in the Song ...

Lifestyle Family Animals "When the time comes, please let me go": Vet sends heartbreaking poem to owner of dog put to sleep Be prepared, this will probably bring a tear to your eye. Would this ...

It either grabs me, or it doesn't. There are collections of poems that are only bound together by the book's cover, and those are mostly the ones that I can glance at and let go.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...