Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

A cinematic and sensorial new book unfolds like a live performance, an ode to Southern roots, sacred sensuality, and a woman returning to herself. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, January 3, 2026 ...

The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...

A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...

A 9-11 memory and poem, from Sister Cashel Weiler of Rochester: Sept. 11, 2001 was my first day of a fall vacation. I live in Saint Marys Convent in Rochester, and glancing at the TV, I thought it was ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s debut book ...

that came before – A separation. We served tacos. Tacos that stained the concrete under which they were served. A stain which will serve as a new kind of reminder of that day for years to come. We are ...

The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...