Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

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Sometimes expressing your love for your dad (or the father figures in your life) is easier in verse. You can add Father's Day poems to cards or notes, put them on your Instagram with a picture of that ...

How It Is: Selected Poems by Neil Shepard, Salmon Poetry, 178 pages. $25. Every book is a new adventure — or something like that — but Neil Shepard‘s How It Is: Selected Poems gathers an unusually ...

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...

Friday (March 21) marks World Poetry Day - an occasion celebrated since 1999 after UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) highlighted it's aim to "preserve ...

Katie Keiling read this poem aloud at a Disabilities Awareness March two years ago about the time Gary Arnold was starting to think she was the one. One simple act of love has changed the way people ...