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

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

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

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

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

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.

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

T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...