Though she grew up in New York and now calls Los Angeles home, Aja Monet’s six years in Miami played a pivotal role in her growth as a poet. Her second collection of poetry, Florida Water, out June 3, ...

Verity Spott’s “On Jasmine” gathers its energy, as a storm does, until ordinary acts assume extraordinary proportions. The poem operates by a kind of fairy logic: mesmerizing, oneiric, enchanted, with ...

Emerson saw, on the one hand, the permanence of nature’s laws, and on the other hand, nature’s fluid relationship with human consciousness as it both shapes and is shaped by our perceptions.