It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture. We poets are happy—ecstatic, really—to cultivate a few hundred thoughtful readers, and ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...

Aren’t ponies the best? The apple-cheeked children in this collection of short poems certainly think so. “My pony knows me./ He hears me when I come,” says a girl pushing a wheelbarrow full of carrots ...