Poet, novelist, critic, and professor Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) numbered among his Columbia University students such literary figures as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. An advocate for liberal ...

I do not speak a word of wind. Anton Stephan is a longtime Rochester resident, with a background in education, where he worked for over 30 years. He is now retired. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry ...

Reviewed by Charles Butterfield Reading Distler’s collection of short lyrics is like poring over unmatted, unframed watercolor sketches. One suspects the poet knows a thing or two about painting when, ...

Ramakaushalyan Ramakrishnan’s Poem of the Wind is made of fragments. We dip in and out of moments and scenes from a theatre artist Bharani’s life. These range from his childhood to the very nether.

The second act of Shakespeare’s comedy “As You Like It” finds the play’s central characters exiled or fleeing the court of the usurping Duke Frederick, to wander lost in the Forest of Arden. In ...

NFL Films president Steve Sabol, who passed away at age 69 on Tuesday, played a big role in the glorification of the Oakland Raiders’ tough-guy image. It was Sabol who penned a poem for NFL Films in ...

The poem is written from the perspective of a man watching a child dancing “upon the shore” without a care “for wind or water’s roar”. As the child has not yet reached adulthood — having “not yet ...

How many poets does it take to change a light bulb? Only one. Here’s a poem by Jaret Carter from his new book, “The Land Itself,” from Monongahela Press. This is a fine example of how a talented poet ...

“there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out/but I’m too tough for him/I say, stay in there, I’m not going/to let anybody see/you” Charles Bukowski’s poem Bluebird becomes an entry point for ...