I love the dream-like quality of the poem itself—its haziness and abstraction, the way the beloved woman appears only as a heart, a pair of eyes, and an empty space in the speaker’s bed.

They answered him, “We each had a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.” So Joseph said to them, “Surely interpretations belong to God! Please tell me your dreams.” ~ Genesis 40:8 I ...

David Biespiel's most recent book of poems is "Charming Gardeners." His anthology "Poems of the American South" is due out next month in the Everyman's Library series. Updated July 21, 2014, 11:42 ...

Scientists can’t explain exactly why we need sleep, no matter how hard they study the waves in our brain cycles as we close our eyes. The only logical explanation is that our dreams are miraculous.

Winter Poetus by Favorite American Poets. With Illustrations. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co. A Child’s Dream of a Star. By CHARLES DICKENS. With Illustrations by Hammatt Billings. Boston ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

In the spring of 1986, I penned a poem entitled “Dream Fulfilled.” In those 44 lines of poetry, I gingerly attempted to incorporate iambic pentameter into the process.

Amanda Gorman performed her new spoken-word poem titled "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Read the full text here.

The poem concluded, "Let us not just believe in the American dream. Let us be worthy of it." She rose to fame in 2021 when she performed " The Hill We Climb " at President Biden's inauguration ...