Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Where Hopkins’ speaker perceives the natural world as straightforwardly sacramental ... Spring,' and he has received a 2019 Christopher Medal for his poetry in the year’s best children’s book. He ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her capacious debut collection. That opening sequence orbits around Sarah ...

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, a Black person, sees the world as a “fenced-off narrow space,” an unnecessarily walled place, and resolves to obliterate cruel boundaries.

Poetry-loving President Biden heads to Ireland, ... Poetry-loving Biden heads to Ireland, home of the 'best poets in the world' April 9, 2023 5:00 AM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.

On World Poetry Day, Euronews Culture counts down the best uses of poetry in film – without so much considering the overall quality of the films themselves, but rather how well the poem has been ...

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 ...