A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books ...

Bibbins writes poems like collages -– using words or anecdotes to create new layers of meaning.

But in its purity, if we want to see poems not mean but be, the best place to go may be Mother Goose. Or any nonsense poem, really. After all, if the goal is not meaning, poems designed not to mean ...

Poems without a definite meaning tend to engage a reader’s attention more than those that can be clearly understood and analyzed by the intellect. Ambiguous poetry has a mystery that fascinates.

Michelle Brandt, owner and director of Brandt-Roberts Galleries, said she came up with the title for the exhibition based on a poem that seemed to describe the symbolism present in the artists ...

Peachy Lee, a Lancaster Country Day School senior, will recite three poems during the Poetry Out Loud national competition in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The winner of the national competition ...

One Hundred Poems That Capture the Meaning of Joy Christian Wiman’s new anthology brings together an admirable range of meditations on an emotion whose place in the world today can seem uncertain.

The "Seven Steps Verse" poem posted by Elon Musk uses an allegory about beans to describe the relationship between two brothers fighting for a throne.

“Mimi’s Trapeze,” a new book by J. Allyn Rosser, starts with a quote by Balzac in the original French. The poet translates it roughly as, “what an appalling condition in which every happy ...