Sometimes the point takes you to some memory that is faint. The memory might not even be yours. And this is one of those poems, in which David Baker has me thinking of what I’ve gained and lost trying ...

Stuck for gift ideas for the poetry lover in your life? Poet, writer and teacher Dave Lordan might have the answer to your prayers. Dave appeared on Monday's Arena, and told Seán Rocks that, for a ...

“In My Hands” is translated by Sarah Traister Moskovitz. The poem is from the Ringelblum Archives and appears in poetryinhell.org. Simkha Shayevitch died 1944 in Auschwitz of typhoid. He was one of ...

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, illus. by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson. Clarion, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-31340-8 In a cheery reminder of the pride of creating something and the many forms art can take, ...

A compliment among jazz musicians, delivered after a killer solo, is “You were really going somewhere.” That kind of improvised performance, at its best, is not just a stack of impressive phrases or a ...