Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. This week’s Deep Water poem is the final poem in the final book of beloved poet Lee Sharkey, who passed away last year. Written by a woman on the ...

Like many I spent yesterday morning reading everything I could about the 49 people who were killed at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Reading about the grieving family members. Reading about the killer.

Young (Dear Darkness) is not only a prolific and acclaimed poet, but also the editor of several anthologies of poems, by African-American poets, inspired by the blues and jazz, and from the body of ...

American poet and short story writer Sylvia Plath was considered a genius even during her lifetime, drawing literary attention from a young age. But her death on this day in 1963 has long overshadowed ...