Advice Dear Annie: Poems about spring, joy and the innocence of childhood Published: Apr. 20, 2025, 11:30 a.m.

better to have lost. Poems copyright 2017 by Laura Mazza-Dixon CT Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilkin selects work for CT Poets Corner by invitation. More from Connecticut’s poets here.

Joy Ladin’s “Transmigration Poems,” published this summer, goes against such a worldview, as the poems of the collection are intensely personal, confessional.

She will read her poems at 7 p.m. Friday at Essex Community College to lead off the 10th annual Creative Writing Forum sponsored by Baltimore County public schools and community colleges.

“My work is loving the world.” “Messenger,” a poem by the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019), begins like this. Like those words, Oliver passionately sings of love for the world ...

A too-short poem can ruin this effect, the effect of out-of-context-ness. When there is poem-out-of-view, you feel lucky, as if you might have found the bit that matters only to you.

Advice Dear Annie: Poems about spring, joy and the innocence of childhood Published: Apr. 20, 2025, 11:30 a.m.