Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

He handed me a book, opened to a page with a short poem, and said, “You read this one.” The last time I read a poem in public was decades ago in Delhi, at a high-school competition.

I Want This Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

It's part of a new "baby box" initiative. A poem from the national poet of Scotland will be part of the baby boxes that will soon be gifted to all newborns from the Scottish government. news.gov ...

Dad wanted me to leave you all with this poem he wrote, which he gave me a long time ago, and told me that if I ever got here, I should read it. So that’s what I’m going to do.” Here I am, 39.