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 ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

Ifaam Bashir is a student of English literature at EFLU, Hyderabad, and is originally from Jammu and Kashmir. He writes poems ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...

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, ...

Writing a poem about poetry only going to puzzle and bore non-poets. Worse, it’s going to sound "elitist," which is a grave sin in our faux-egalitarian country, ...

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 ...