Joseph Brodsky's "A Polar Explorer": Making Decisions without Choices
By: Matthew Birdsall
Donald Hall Chronicle of Causality: Coital Consequences
By: Matthew Birdsall
Levine's "Animals Are Passing From Our Lives": Who Has Dignity?
By: Matthew Birdsall
Kunitz's "The Portrait": Father, Mother, Son are One
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: Douglas Nordfors
Ted Kooser's "Tattoo": Even Ink Comes out in the Wash
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: David Todd
The Mountain by Robert Frost: What is the Farmer Hoping to Accomplish?
By: David Todd
Auden's The Unknown Citizen: Scathing Satire of Conformity
By: Matthew Birdsall
When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd: A Short Commentary on Walt Whitman’s Poem
By: Paul-John Ramos
By: James Parsons
By: James Parsons
By: David Todd
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath Not Bitter and Gloomy: Plath's Fun Riddle is the Best of Pregnancy Poems
By: James Parsons
Edgar Allan Poe – Two Life and Death Poems: The Conqueror Worm and "Alone"
By: Martin G. Wood
David Kirby's "Monte": The Solution in the Mistake
By: Matthew Birdsall
Louise Gluck – Two Poems: Gretel in Darkness – Mock Orange – A Fable and an Ill-Fated Union
By: Martin G. Wood
Carl Sandburg – Four Autumn Poems: Under the Harvest Moon Through Autumn Movement
By: Martin G. Wood
Jack Myers's "Blindsided": Saving Face in the Face of Adversity
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: Douglas Nordfors
James Wright's "Beginning": Lean on What You Know
By: Matthew Birdsall
Tony Hoagland's "Leaving Yourself Behind": The Humor of Gravity
By: Matthew Birdsall
Billy Collins's Aubade: Who's Listening at Dawn?
By: Matthew Birdsall
The Mind-Body Problem is a Joy: Katha Pollitt's New Book of Poetry is a Must Read
By: Douglas Nordfors
Charles Simic's Fork: Portrayals of Violence in Contemporary Poetry
By: Matthew Van Cura
Stephen Dobyns's Uprising: A Call to Harms
By: Matthew Birdsall
Elegy and Celebration in the Napa Valley: A Reading by Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander
By: Michael Waterson
By: David Todd
The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop: Analysis of Figurative Language in Bishop’s Poem
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Review – The Notebooks of Robert Frost: Insight Into his Character, Poetry, and Thoughts
By: David Todd
Dunn's "Tucson": The Fate of Desire
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: Ann Silverthorn
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Robinson Jeffers: His Unusual Legacy From Tamar to The Double Axe
By: Paul-John Ramos
Rules of Sleep: Do Bodies at Rest Ever Stop?
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: David Todd
The Death of the Hired Man – an Overview: Robert Frost Shows His Skill in Conversational Blank Verse
By: David Todd
By: David Todd
By: David Todd
Wilbur's Mind: Flying Thoughts
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: Ryan Werner
Word Choices Distinguish Into My Own: Robert Frost Demonstrates Mastery of More Poetic Devices
By: David Todd
Imagery and Metaphor in Into My Own: Robert Frost's Poetic Techniques Enhance the Eternal Message
By: David Todd
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another Look: The Once Famous Poet Seems to Have Disappeared – Why?
By: Douglas Nordfors
Robert Frost's Into My Own: An Overview of One of Frost’s Early Poems
By: David Todd
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: T.S. Eliot's Imagery and Use of Description in His Poetry
By: Margaret Langner
Scary Movies – A Poem: Kim Addonizio's Chilling Homage to Cinema That Haunts the Soul
By: Martin G. Wood
By: Margaret Langner
Charles Simic's Empire of Dreams: Character Without Compromise
By: Matthew Birdsall
Simic's Empire of Dreams: Resilient Character
By: Matthew Birdsall
Robert Frost's Acquainted With the Night: Imagery, Themes, and Meaning in Frost’s Poem
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Pictures From Brueghel: Ekphrastic and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams
By: Holly Thacker
Tony Hoagland: American Poet and Writer
By: Sarah Scott
Understanding the Poetry of Robert Frost: An Introductory Guide to Analyzing Frost’s Poems
By: Jeris Swanhorst
Monica Youn – Two Poems: Stealing The Scream – Venice, Unaccompanied
By: Martin G. Wood
Mark Strand's Prediction: We Are Mortal
By: Matthew Birdsall
Bad River Road Follows Tradition: Debra Nystrom's Skillful Autobiographical Poetry
By: Douglas Nordfors
Book Review – Ultramarine by Raymond Carver: Subpar Poetry by the Late, Acclaimed Short-Story Writer
By: Ryan Werner
Updike's Evening Concert: Light and Sound Creatively Commingle
By: Matthew Birdsall
Dorothy Parker – Four Poems on Death: The Audacious Poet Harbored a Morbid Fascination
By: Martin G. Wood
Dorothy Parker – Three Night Poems: Midnight – Rainy Night – Sonnet On An Alpine Night
By: Martin G. Wood
By: Martin G. Wood
A Review of Barbara Hamby's Babel: A Book of Poetry That Explores What Words Can (and Cannot) Do
By: Ana Hartman
By: Martin G. Wood
By: Martin G. Wood
Ginsberg – A Study of Howl: A Brief Look at the Second and Third Parts of his Apocalyptic Poem
By: Holly Thacker
A Cat/A Future: Idleness Is Illusive
By: Matthew Birdsall
By: 
Christine Welter
107th & Amsterdam: Deep Into Matthews's Intersection
By: Matthew Birdsall
Review of Anne Sexton's "Her Kind": A Poem Celebrating Woman as Witch
By: Jeanne Lombardo
Life's Song Set to Poetry: The Worth of a Talented American Poet’s Compelling Pen
By: Rhonda Campbell
Mary Oliver's House of Light: Poetic Reminders of Beauty in Darkness
Adultery by James Dickey: One Deadly Sin in One Potent Poem
By: Martin G. Wood
Bishop's Filling Station: Somebody Is Missing
By: Matthew Birdsall
Billy Collins – Three Poems on Writing: Madmen – Introduction to Poetry – Writing in the Afterlife
By: Martin G. Wood
Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore: The Poet Offers Her Post Game Analysis on Baseball
By: Martin G. Wood
Anne Sexton in the Confessional: Her Kind – The Room of My Life – Wanting To Die
By: Martin G. Wood
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg: Walt Whitman Shops The Body Electric
By: Martin G. Wood
Charles Bukowski - So You Want To Be A Writer? A Cautionary Poem About The Writer's Life
By: Martin G. Wood
Key to the Highway: The Journey
By: Matthew Birdsall
The Pantoum: Nellie Wong's "Grandmother's Song": Building Patterns of Memory With Poetic Form
By: Kristie Camacho
Walt Whitman and Transcendentalism: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking and the Nature of Humanity
By: Kristie Camacho
Out of the Root Cellar: Finding Light in the Dark
By: Matthew Birdsall
What is National Poetry Month? Academy of American Poets Brings NPM Again April 2009
School of Fish, by Eileen Myles: Poetry Collection Review
By: Carissa A. Boak
Merrill's Renewal: I Love You, I Love You Not
By: Matthew Birdsall
The Beautiful, Collected Poems of Michelle Tea: Poetry Review
By: Carissa A. Boak
Mary Oliver's Red Bird: Finding the Music in Doubt
Otherwise Obedient: Poetic Scenes through the Eyes of a Humble Narrator
Sylvia Plath's "Winter Landscape, with Rooks": Motion, Emotion, Stillness
By: Forrest Poston
By: Kristie Camacho
Walt Whitman: A Voice of Hope and Unification: Leaves of Grass and Whitman's Philosophy
By: Kristie Camacho
Schuyler's "Shimmer": All Sexuality Bears Fruit
By: Matthew Birdsall
Walt Whitman's Peaceful Actions and Ideals: Whitman's Civil War Poetry and Pacifist Influences
By: Kristie Camacho
By: Holly Thacker
I Know a Man: Analyzing Control in Robert Creeley's Poetry
By: Matthew Birdsall
Understanding Emily Dickinson's Wild Nights: A Passionate and Controversial Poem
Salter's Welcome to Hiroshima: A Visceral Cautionary Tale
Critique of Stevens's The Emperor of Ice Cream: Diction and Imagery Affect Mood
By: Matthew Birdsall
Dickinson's Some Keep the Sabbath: An Assertion of Spiritual Individualism
