Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

I am saddened when I hear so many people say they don’t like poetry, but I understand (“A Poet’s Paradise, for Better or for Verse,” by Rick Wartzman, From First and Spring, Aug. 27). If the public ...

Campbell McGrath is one of our established fine American poets. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including his most recent, "In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys" (Ecco, 2012). He will ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

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In her Foley poetry contest submission, “Myself, the Almost Infinite (A ghazal),” Rainey Sierra writes about “My mother’s eyes—bloodshot boondocks—Chicago sprouting from Tennessee soil, everything ...