This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power ...

Ramakaushalyan Ramakrishnan’s Poem of the Wind is made of fragments. We dip in and out of moments and scenes from a theatre artist Bharani’s life. These range from his childhood to the very nether.

“there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out/but I’m too tough for him/I say, stay in there, I’m not going/to let anybody see/you” Charles Bukowski’s poem Bluebird becomes an entry point for ...

The poem is written from the perspective of a man watching a child dancing “upon the shore” without a care “for wind or water’s roar”. As the child has not yet reached adulthood — having “not yet ...

The wind is wild; the fire is not tame. You mouth the prayers, recite the ancient creed. If you will, you can become all flame. You scour the Scriptures, making truth your aim. You advertise your ...

Poet, novelist, critic, and professor Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) numbered among his Columbia University students such literary figures as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. An advocate for liberal ...

I do not speak a word of wind. Anton Stephan is a longtime Rochester resident, with a background in education, where he worked for over 30 years. He is now retired. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry ...

••• Carl Phillips’ “Wild Is the Wind” meditates on the historical and emotional complexities embedded in human interactions. There is a throughline about relationships where the speaker has more ...

Miller Oberman published the poetry collection “The Unstill Ones” in 2017. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School. “What is it I will have left when I leave, ...