Poems explore the work of Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Sir Issac Newton, the myth of Orpheus, the relationship between the sacred and the profane, and the modern world's tendency to distance itself
Poetry. The poems in Joseph Harrison's second collection, IDENTITY THEFT, map the erosions and betrayals of selfhood, both cyberspace-age and age-old. If the high-speed title poem and the other menaci
Poetry. Set up rather like an encyclopedia, and containing urgent information about pretty much everything—from the Big Bang to the second shooter on the grassy knoll—Greg Williamson's A MOST MARVELOU
Poetry. Cody Walker's SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN, his first collection and a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005 and 2006, is a work of comic brilliance and devastating irony. From Abbott a
Poetry. In his first full-length collection in ten years, Eric McHenry brings fresh attention to his old obsessions—love, laughter, justice, transience, how humility ennobles, how time makes the famil
Poetry. "Move over Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, good old Anon, maybe even William Blake after how many pints of ale. Here's Cody Walker who declaims and bargains an 'icicle for a bicycle,' a
Poetry. When Kirby the sneaky, dog-genius steals the hole Arlo dug in the yard, social order begins to break down. The ants get lazy. The brook dries up. The dragonfly has engine trouble. Kirby faces
Poetry. Winner of the fourteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, awarded by former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Aristotle daydreams in a Chevy Suburban. Darwin is at kindergarten graduation
Poetry. A former winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Morri Creech is one of America's finest poets. His fourth collection, BLUE ROOMS, explores
Poetry. Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. ADDENDUM TO A MIRACLE, Mike White's second book of poetry, is a collection that explores the shifting borderland between the sacred and the profane. T
Poetry. It is 50 years since Atheneum published Anthony Hecht and John Hollander's Jiggery-Pokery, a compendium of verses known as double dactyls. The double dactyl was the invention of Hecht and Paul
