sky and Southern Cross, I wondered. Richard Levine, a retired NYC teacher, is the author of Now in Contest, Selected Poems, Contiguous States, and five chapbooks. An Advisory Editor of BigCityLit ...

So far, the two poets have penned two poems each. Published on Facebook at Plymouth Poetry Forum here and Thom Boulton: Plymouth’s Poet Laureate in England, the four missives share thoughts ...

Memorial Day, a national holiday to honor the 1.17 million men and women who have died to create and maintain the freedoms outlined in our Constitution, is not the only Memorial Day.

In 1861, after one of the first battles of the Civil War, Herman Melville composed the following poem, titled “Ball’s Bluff. A Reverie.” One noonday, at my window in the town, I saw a sight ...

The Italian poet Milo de Angelis lost his wife, Giovanna Sicari, to cancer at age 49 in 2003, and he did what poets have always done: He wrote an elegy that's very much of our time but echoes ...

More than 140 years ago, an obscure Midwestern poet read an original work to the president and thousands of spectators on Memorial Day. Then his contribution all but vanished. J.P. Irvine had lived ...

She also wrote her own memorial poem, "We Shall Keep the Faith," which alluded to McCrae's but is from the perspective of the living, ending with a promise to the fallen: "Fear not that ye have ...