Lifelong friend of Trappist Monk Thomas Merton and abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, Robert Lax wrote spare poems that, in their beguiling simplicity, provoke anxieties about how and why we read. A ...

Like so many of her great poems, this almost-riddle combines a childlike simplicity with great complexity Under the Light, yet under Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the ...

C.D. Wright (1949-2016) died suddenly earlier this year. Whether she was writing about social issues, like the life of prisoners in Louisiana, or the personal, her poetry was always marked by ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Work & Days” and “Rift Zone.” She is the editor of the new book “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands ...