The title of today’s Poem of the Day, first published in 1912, inevitably recalls “Portrait of a Lady,” the 1881 novel by Henry James (1843–1916). The archetypal Jamesian female protagonist, Isabel ...

This poem is part of a sonnet sequence that meditates on Andrea Modica’s photographs of skulls unearthed from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. In this sonnet (there’s a dropped line in ...

dare they? how dare they? Normal, who slept with one eye open, watching Love rifle through my room. Normal, who used to growl at Love until she kicked him sore. Normal, who used to snap until Love ...

Shara McCallum is the author of six books, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.