Dan Chiasson, a contributor to The New Yorker since 2007, teaches English at Wellesley College. His most recent book of poems is “The Math Campers.” It’s 2025, and our society should be ...

Keep scrolling for 25 of the best poetry books of all time and fill your shelves with cultural masterpieces. Published posthumously, Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam was inspired by a horrifying incident ...

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry ...

(Parry’s range of ­reference in this book, as previously ... told her to find her meter in the English poetry she liked best. If the reader therefore hears Milton’s unrhymed iambic ...

As editors who review poetry for ... and the five books in The Mooring of Starting Out show him at his best. The poet has an ear for everyday, conversational English, which he scrambles and ...

From a new translation of Homer’s “Iliad” to the strange new world of AI verse, it’s been an epic year for the art of poetry. Only a god or an algorithm would presume to list the best ...

Best books of 2024: Poetry on linkedin (opens in a new window) Best books of 2024: ... The English poet wears her wide-ranging formal skill lightly in her eighth collection: ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not ...

Today The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of ... Republic” in February 1862. In the book’s introduction, Hunter writes: “Atlantic poems have represented the country’s wildly ...

Poetry takes the pulse of the times. These times are dark: wars raging; a pandemic that, though it has ebbed, still has everyone confused and afraid; monstrous, hate-filled social media posts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird (Carcanet) Bird’s eighth collection is playful, irreverent and ...

Scientific Marvel is a poetry book by Chimwemwe Undi ... Flauto is a writer and poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Capilano University. Their writing has previously been published ...