From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...
“Sonnet 29” is a favorite of mine because it makes me laugh about unhappiness—my own and Shakespeare's. An occupational hazard of poets is feeling oneself an unappreciated outsider. One compares ...