The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...

Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power and given poets a lane to voice their ...

Plenitude The housing crisis peeps through certain poems (“our young who cannot afford a home: there is no nest” Lustrous ...

In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of ...

A new book of poems by Frederick Smock is a little like a visit from an old friend you haven’t seen for a while. He’s tanned and healthy from having spent time on the banks of the Ohio and Kentucky ...

Gorman shared her new poem on Instagram. Amanda Gorman is ringing in the new year with a new poem. The National Youth Poet Laureate, who is most famous for her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she ...

Although Rita Dove has won most of the honors available to an American poet — she was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 1986 collection “Thomas and Beulah,” ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...