As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

Skye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim.

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

A new poem by Josephine Balmer. By Josephine Balmer As if a stranger, he stared right through me. I’d found him in the garden, dug in, filthy, his shins patched against scuff or scratch, tattered ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

From “The New York Times,” I’m Anna Martin ... When we come back, Ada Limón tells me why poems about love are often the scariest for her to write. And she reads a “Modern Love” essay ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book ... and over again that it's like he has allowed me to ride in the front seat of his convertible ...

Award-winning poet laureate and former probation officer, Simon Armitage, has crafted an ode to those working in the ...

It reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor ... The vast majority of Democrats, 73%, said the poem — titled “The New Colossus” — should influence U.S. immigration policy, while ...

Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively ... Her memoir, "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," is a New York Times bestseller.

“Our project is developing new digital techniques to restore lost ... spokesman for the reign of Victoria,” according to the Poetry Foundation. He was also a “prolific reviser,” who ...