Complex currents of history and geology run through this warm tribute to Sierra Leone The Colour of Stones I When you arrive in this misnamed country, come to the crooked hills; the fierce, verdant ...

Click on the link for a copy of Christina Rossetti's poem, Colour.

A sharply observed nature poem that is also a hellish pastoral towards the end of time Leaf Color A steely torn silver, rusted along the edges; the faint acidic yellow, like the backwash of a polluted ...

I decide that I’ll knit the birds and the magnolia into a poem, Make their bond eternal. Simrita Dhir lectures at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of acclaimed novels The ...

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 ...