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The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to Meredith Williams at [email protected].

as water in a sealed pit. Bor sud, in Hebrew, is a water-proofed cistern, or sealed pit, which holds all the water that enters it and lets nothing escape. In the Talmud, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurkinos is ...

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 ...

car engines idle outside the Lucky Wishbone. Have something on your mind? Send to [email protected] or click here to submit via any web browser. Letters under 200 words have the best chance of being ...

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Michelle Hamadache does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...