Not going to  battle the harried masses in a European capital this summer? Take heart, you ol' stick in the mud. Just remember ho...

The Sweet Sixteen have come and gone, and the Elite Eight have been narrowed to a Final Four. We may have to wait a few more days to d...

Ode to the Vinyl Record by   Thomas R. Smith (all emphasis is mine) The needle lowers into the groove and I'm home. It could...

Here’s a poem to ponder as you drag your festive fire hazard of a fir tree out to the curb this year: The Second Life of Christmas...

Can a poem be so bad that it crosses over into “awesome.” Today I’m operating on the assumption that it can. I happened upon some old scraps...

I’m not a huge poetry guy. But when I do force myself to dip an occasional toe in that literary form, the poems I gravitate towards a...

Today’s poem is a little longer than we normally like to feature, but it comes to you with the grainy, century-old footage that inspired it...

So here’s an interesting topic: Movies based on poems. Yes, they exist. It seems they are few and far between, but a little digging re...

As summer draws to a close (school starts next week here in Georgia- good grief!) I thought it would be good to pass along this poem I...

Alright. Today’s poem-for-the-common-man is short and sweet. There’s nothing overtly profound about it, but it still manages to tear your h...

What             are              poems                         written       like         this                 trying       ...

My high-school English teacher defined poetry as “crystallized thought.” As little as I’ve thought about poetry in the intervening fift...

-Image courtesy of Fashion Abuse Whereabouts by Marcus Jackson, from  Neighborhood Register . © Caravan Kerry Press, 2011. —to Nic...

In this running series we’ve tried to break the shackles of bucolic, pastoral settings and head-in-the-clouds love language that somet...

-Walker Evans, 1936, Vicksburg Mississippi. Here’s another helping of poetry for the poetically-impaired. I came across this one on t...

Poetry for the rest of us: -Image by James Henkel Design BY BILLY COLLINS I pour a coating of salt on the table and make...

If literary fiction is misunderstood and ignored by Joe Sixpack, what hope does poetry have of reaching the unwashed masses? Not much. Not...