The world is always failing. You could write a history of the end of days, and it would cover human existence from the beginning. If we didn’t fairly regularly fall into fits of certainty that ...

That is the question that absorbed Michael Davidson as he wrote “The Second City,” a poem “about the city you create in your dreams.” Fascinated by modernism, urban redevelopment and dreamscapes, ...

As spring edges out winter and previously bare tree limbs are suddenly effusive with blossoms, there's a sense that almost anything -- or anyone -- deserves a second chance. In her poem "A Quiet," ...

The syntax in this poem mimics the confusing and untidy emotional landscape of relationships. The first eight lines seem to intentionally reverse grammar, withholding the subject(s). A conventional ...