It is not a cozy, pious poetry. Thomas is often called the “poet of the hidden God.” Poem after poem finds him kneeling in a dark empty church, waiting for a God who refuses to appear or speak. “To ...

Poet Tracy K. Smith's three favorite poems of 2011 blur the private and public, the personal and political, and will refresh how you look at language and the world.

Waiting on God is not easy but it can be successful if we do it right. We must wait with COURAGE, not trepidation and fear. “Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2021.

During the last week of National Poetry Month in 2014, we featured snippets of Times articles you can use to create and share your own short poems. To begin, select an article and click on up to ...

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: "Life on Mars" (Graywolf Press, 2011); Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American ...

waiting on you to die so i can be myself. By Danez Smith. a thousand years of daughters, then me. what else could i have learned to be? girl after girl after giving herself to herself one long ...

In a 'landscape transformed,' Maine writers and artists describe pain, hope and 'the boring parts of keeping us alive' in these extraordinary times. “Wait: Poems from the Pandemic” features ...