The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...

This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. In this sonnet (there’s a dropped line in ...

Blending photography and poetry is the focus of the exhibition “The Gravel Underneath” that is opening at the Patton-Malott Gallery at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. today. The ...

Courtney Blazon grew up reading Richard Brautigan, the cult writer of the novel "Trout Fishing in America." By high school, she dove into his poetry, now out of print. This last winter, while going ...

The story begins in the middle: the middle of the Jardin du Luxembourg, at “an eight-sided pond/ where you can rent a tiny sailboat/ and set it adrift over and over again.” And in the middle of ...

Shara McCallum is the author of six books, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.

In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting (real or imagined) with the abusive father. The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.