By Dana Henry Martin: In 2023, I spent several days at a psychiatric hospital in a Western state. While I was there, I saw a young man in his late teens almost die by suicide several times. His attempts occurred at irregular intervals throughout the day, every day. He wore thick, black frames and had dark, wavy hair that he swept across his forehead. He looked like a young Allen Ginsberg and had that same brilliant, shy, creative intensity. He showed me his art: drawings of the ghosts who...

By Dana Henry Martin: Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Favourite Poet (1888). Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool Why do we read and write poetry...