Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

professor emeritus of English at John Carroll University in Ohio. “The poem does culminate in a declaration that: ‘I’ve been through hell; and it’s not the fire; it’s not the devil ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...