“One of the things / he believed was that our poems could be better / than our motives. So who cares why / he wrote those lines about the hairstyle / of his piano teacher in Wilno in the 1920s / or ...

‘Jesus Christ the Apple Tree’ is one of the most sublime and calming of all the Christmas carols. Its tender melody perfectly supports the text, a poetic and deeply felt appreciation of Jesus, who is ...

GRAFTON — He started his journal almost a year after she abruptly left. In February, Dean Valoras wrote this poem, “Apple Tree,” on his new Wordpress site: There’s an apple tree just as you pass ...

Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt described herself as a “glass-half-empty kind of girl” in one of her poems — but she’s optimistic about the future of poetry. Voigt, who last month was awarded one of the ...