Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

Poetry suddenly seems more relevant since Sept. 11. Poems by Auden and Yeats and Marianne Moore -- particularly Auden's "September 1, 1939," written after the Nazi invasion of Poland and containing ...

A couple of months back I was sitting in an East Village dive bar enjoying, oh, I don’t know, my third or fourth whiskey (it was Tuesday, after all), when I noticed a very attractive girl next to me ...

A story she was told inspired verse in Amina Hasan.