This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...

In For My Grandmother Knitting, Lochhead asks us to consider the way the elderly are treated in our society and how the process of aging changes our perceptions of individuals. The poet uses the ...

In this paper I present several samples of a hitherto unknown type of Samaritan liturgical poem called Tawḥīd. Written in Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic, the main motif of these poems is "to declare God ...

Originally is an autobiographical close autobiographyA description of a person’s life written by that person. poem by Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy considers and explores the sense of isolation and confusion ...