Simone Weil says in a passage quoted in this anthology, “A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it.” Using Weil’s definition, this is the most real collection of poetry ...

If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

If I were to choose one word to describe this story it would the word joy. Joy because at every turn, I witnessed joy. Edna Bishop’s laugh -- joyful. The dresses she makes, her creations, are bringing ...

NORTH CAROLINA, NC, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Poems for Praise, Comfort, and Joy: Volume I by Ronald Jirovec, published by Kravitz & Sons ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...

Art is long and life is short. Or is it the other way around? On the evidence of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems,[1] a 258-page volume that spans sixty years of poetic productivity, ...

Remember in the first place that this is not an anthology of modern poetry, so called, or of recent Poetry in general. It is not meant to be, if we may believe the statement on the cover that Mrs.

I couldn’t do better this year than bring you Hardy’s poem. You may know this one. It’s really a simple poem. In the evening, the speaker is leaning against a coppice gate, that is, one that opens ...