Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring vitality — and his new book reveals exactly why. A survey of American history through the “intimate eye” that only poetry can provide, Brown ...

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in a poem.

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

With schools on the verge of opening soon, I'm getting into the didactic spirit too. For poets and for devotees of poetry, here are 17 assumptions about poetry and poetic form that I keep in mind when ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

THERE is a very good reason why the relation of poetry to political revolution should interest our generation. Poetry, to most people, stands for the intensely personal life of the individual spirit.

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...