A sad poem of American life An exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Americans as they once were. Oct 15th 2009 | Share. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

14 Gorgeously Sad Poems About Heartbreak That Will Heal Your Soul When in doubt, ... (Read the full poem here.) 9. "The Sporting Life" by Bob Hicok "I've learned this much: empathy is shit." ...

Life. Read This Sad Poem Backwards For A Lovely Surprise. by Jamie Kenney. July 24, 2015. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images News/Getty Images.

The Sad & Hilarious Truth Of Life As A Millennial. by Lucia Peters. ... Like Quarter Life Poetry itself, “The Struggle” videos are also “100 percent autobiographical,” according to Jayne, ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets, about how work, a life of duty, can make real the highest of dreams, a life of beauty. Like ...

TRUE LIFE, by Adam Zagajewski.Translated by Clare Cavanagh. The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Sylvia M. Vardell, who lives in Dallas, Texas. When asked how she became interested in poetry, Sylvia says, “My parents are German immigrants and ...

Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...