IN “Instrument of Immortality,” the opening Dante’s type long poem, in Umar Yogiza Jr’s first collection, Instrument of Immortality, the author-like narrator asserts: “I am the hidden; the unseen ...

(BOA, 2010). Included on the Academy's website is Teicher's own discussion of the poem: "This poem comes from a series of prose poems about 'big ideas' written during a period when I was having ...

Yes, and it’s been around since at least 1880. Thomas C. Zimmerman, editor of the Reading Times, translated Clement C. Moore’s immortal poem into the Pennsylvania German dialect in 1876. “Die Nacht ...

Born in New York City in 1779, Clement Clarke Moore became a noted lecturer and writer. Yet his life would merit little more than a footnote in New York’s history, except for the one poem for which he ...

We can find healing powers in writing a poem about our present conflicts or conundrums. This requires no special writing skills. We simply open our mindful brain to our experience and jot down what ...