Richard previously wrote this beautiful poem for us. River Town My city came with its own tangle of meanings, bars and backseats where I lost my innocence avidly, gardenias, pure intoxication when ...

“Mother gone to ash / river gone to drowned,” Nicole Cooley writes in the titular poem of "Mother Water Ash" (LSU Press, 72 pages, $19.95): Cooley, now a professor at Queens College at City ...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s new poem The Drift graces Chelsea Waterfront’s new footbridge, blending poetry with ...