Among the knotty metaphysical poets who populated the first literary generation after Shakespeare, John Donne (1572–1631) is easily the knottiest. His poems are marvels of mental engineering, ...

This week's poem, Virginia Woolf's Angels 1919, comes from Patricia McCarthy's new collection, Horses Between Our Legs, a collection which includes the poem that won first prize last year in the ...

The unnamed wife of Manoah is the real story.

you may wonder how to identify them. Treat everyone you meet as if they are one and you’ll be right every time. I’d like to send angels to where all the wars are to distract the perpetrators with ...

The epigraph to Naveen Kishore’s luminous book of poems, Ode to a Grieving Angel, reads like a description of an artist’s life in all its hard materiality: somewhere between/ the despairing slopes of ...

A rousing call to find the divine in worldly, bodily life Get Down Ye Angels Get down ye angels from the heights. Try a few of earth’s numinous delights: the orgiastic rustling of the grass. The ...

Erika Gee, director of education for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, touches at a Chinese poem on a barrack wall on Angel Island, Calif. The cold, damp walls, worn from years of ...

Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of ...