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How It Is: Selected Poems by Neil Shepard, Salmon Poetry, 178 pages. $25. Every book is a new adventure — or something like that — but Neil Shepard‘s How It Is: Selected Poems gathers an unusually ...

Every year around this time, children get enthused about “Shark Week,” the popular cable programming series launched all the way back in the summer of 1988. Summer stimulates a natural curiosity about ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

Beside me on my desk are three sticky-notes with lists of things to take care of — people to write, due dates for essays, poems to send, notices to get out. And I’m (theoretically) retired! Which is ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...