Hirshfield has just published two new books: a collection of her own poetry called The ... They allow us to feel how shared our fates are. I think compassion, in a way, is one of the most ...

Those poems that ... make up our city,” she says. “Poetry that is discovered in unexpected places like a crowded subway car or a city bus can provide a window into another way of thinking ...

And I think the way in which you make that poem your own is something that's really, like, powerful for judges to see. Our masters always tried to hide book learning from our eyes. Knowledge didn ...

the way we think about our work.” It inspired them to ask Limón if she would jot down the poem in her own handwriting. Limón wrote “In Praise of Mystery” in tidy script on a sheet of ...