This poem, “A Great Wagon,” is the one that has stayed with me over the last 12 years. You can read it in full here. Like most of Rumi’s poems, its themes are mystical, drawing out what ...

It seems to trail off muttering, embarrassed. LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho ...

This little poem never fails to make me smile--it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work ...