Brand this site Massachusetts to the core! Post poems about our cities and towns – poems you’ve written yourself or those written by others. A dot on the map will indicate which communities that have been represented by at least one poem. There’s no strict limit on how long a poem can be, but generally speaking [...]

Many poetry lovers have read David Ferry’s translations of Virgil and Horace as well as the  Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh. And many have read his own poetry, for which the Poetry Foundation last month awarded him the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. (See one of his poems below.) Ferry, Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English atWellesley College, is  now affiliated with Suffolk University [...]