We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

These collections by Juliana Spahr, Mai Der Vang, Hasib Hourani and Martín Espada invite us to rethink the relentless accumulation of history.

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

The late Ernie Harwell's contributions to the Detroit Tigers are truly immeasurable. In honor of his legacy, I have crafted a ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...