At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

30 Poems in November! is a literary fundraiser in support of literacy programs at Center for New Americans in Northampton. Writers commit to write one poem a day for the 30 days of November. Some ...

Jeffrey Brown profiles David Ferry, a poet concerned with making connections to classical literature. Ferry was recently honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Award for ...

The following six poems are favorites in this writer's kid-filled house. In recent weeks, my kids and I have started reading poetry together before bed. We have several books of poems geared toward ...

This is the second in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first installment here. Each side had its own claim to aesthetic and social righteousness.** Each side ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

As millennials, we consume more poetry through music than almost any other generation. But poetry and poets don't occupy a prominent place in our generation's cultural pantheon. Poetry may be ...