Speer wrote the poem last year, packing images of the river bit-by-bit into stanzas. The trick is to ... "A lot of people love that poem." The piece devotes careful detail to the natural life ...

Poetry exists ... line — “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” — disarms me every time I read it, like a kick to the gut. But I think my favorite line comes in the second stanza: “This ...

A quarter-century or so before Larkin, Auden originally wrote, in the closing line of the penultimate stanza of perhaps his most celebrated poem, “September 1, 1939”: “We must love one ...

Abhay’s latest book is Monsoon: A Poem of Love and Longing ... written in 150 quatrains or four-line stanzas – is an enjoyable reading experience and the message is loud and clear: what ...