Saturday Poetry – ‘Heart to Heart’ by Rita Dove This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Heart to Heart’ by Rita Dove. The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011. “How to find words for the human heart and all the emotions we ascribe to it? The path is a veritable minefield of clichés—those well-intentioned, once-fresh expressions whose very popularity has rendered them useless, even laughable. I decided to take these tired metaphors and deconstruct their camouflage, until all that remains is the…

Saturday Poetry – ‘Good Bones’ – Maggie Smith This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Good Bones’ by Maggie Smith. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Smith’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @leoleoparis with the captivating artwork untitled complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005) To view the others we have published in this section, go here. via Poets.org ‘Good Bones’ by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my…

Saturday Poetry – ‘Proof’ – Tiana Clark This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Proof’ by Tiana Clark. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Santana’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @darkkosmou with the captivating artwork titled ‘Randomly layered emotions’ complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. Tiana Clark holds a BA from Tennessee State University and an MFA from Vanderbilt University. Clark is the author of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the recipient of…

This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘apocalyptic lyric’ by Cintia Santana. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Santana’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @beyond_1st_light – Jane Schultz. The captivating artwork titled ‘To bee or not to bee’ complements the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. Cintia Santana is a Latinx poet and interdisciplinary artist living in the Bay Area on unceded Muwekma Ohlone territory. The recipient of fellowships from Djerassi and CantoMundo, she is the author of The Disordered Alphabet, forthcoming in 2023 from Four Way Books. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as…