Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

Abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass gave his powerful “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 172 years ago. The speech was a powerful illustration of the disparity between the ...

The Project, entering its 24th year, brings together poets and artists to create an annual series of illustrated poetry posters that celebrate Central New York. For 2025 the Project will solicit ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...