poetry
Spring Poetry Collection
In this collection, reading and writing add up to a life lived well. No distinction is made between the literary creation and the human being. As Australian poet Em McAvan writes in her poem "Reading," "I think to myself that / our bodies are like books." What's written in those books, if they are poetry, is elaborated upon in New Jersey poet Doris Arnett Gary's revealing piece, "What's Your Poetry?" Her answer may be surprising--as well as satisfying--for anyone with a limited and academic view of poetry.
Charles H. Johnson
Poetry Editor
Read our Spring 2008 Poetry Selections
classic poetry
- "The Apology" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The Mystery of Pain" by Emily Dickinson
- "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot
- "Hysteria" by TS Eliot
- "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
contribute your verse
- Identity Theory publishes poetry by new and established poets. Read our submission guidelines.
- Charles H. Johnson is in charge of the Identity Theory poetry section.
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