Words need to "audition" for the chance to be in a sentence, poet Kate Coombs writes. In a poem, they need to be perfect for ...

Linda Ankrah-Dove, 83, published three poetry books in April, exploring life and her views on human perspectives. She started ...

Finkel is witty at best, at worst a wiseacre, but his poems about poetry are especially fascinating. ARTHUR FREEMAN’S second book, ESTRANGEMENTS (Harcourt, Brace & World, $3.95), is remarkably ...

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If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, out in September from BOA, ought to be it.This landmark book collects all the published poems of this major poet ...

NPR Poetry Month Kicks Off With TikTok Poems NPR's Michel Martin speaks with poet Ayanna Albertson, whose videos have gone viral on TikTok, about what inspires her work.

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In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...

Poetry used to mean poems. Now poems began to seem like just one habitation, and far from the grandest, of the force that is poetry. Naturally, ...

LOVE AND OTHER POEMS, by Alex Dimitrov.(Copper Canyon, 119 pp., paper, $17.) A highly pleasurable, heavily Frank O’Hara–influenced collection in love with moments and New York City and the ...