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. She is 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. She explains her thoughts behind this poem, ‘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…

Saturday Poetry – ‘Enough’ by Andru Defeye This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Enough’ by Andru Defeye.  He is a poet, writer, community organiser, and musician.  In 2021, Defeye was listed by Sacramento Magazine as one of the city’s one hundred business leaders, and was nominated to receive an honorary doctorate from California State University, Sacramento. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Defeye’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @soniabridekirk with the captivating artwork entitled ‘Magical’ complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. To view the others we have published in this section, go here. via Poets.org ‘Enough’ by Andru Defeye…