Why do school kids shy away from poetry? The answer, suggests “Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry” — a new book from McSweeney’s, in conjunction with the Poetry Foundation — is ...

The American poet William Stafford was often asked by friends, readers, students and colleagues: When did you become a poet? The response he regularly offered was: “The question isn’t when I became a ...

The past two COVID years, characterized by limited interactions and confinement to our homes, have only underscored the extent to which ours has become a culture of spectatorship. Unlike the dog in ...

Ever since I became a journalist, I have had one burning desire: to work the phrases “National Poetry Month” and “The Human Centipede” into the same column. With the following piece, my career will be ...

You could read Anne Waldman’s new poem in “The Lune” in just 11 minutes, zooming through her travelogue of Morocco, briefly tasting the camel burgers and ...

I BEGAN writing poetry because one Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a friend suggested that I should: the thought had never occurred to me. I scarcely knew any poems — The English Hymnal, the Psalms, ...

Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" begins: "They f**k you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do." The students in my courses on modern British literature are as shocked as newborns ...

I'm the daughter of a seamstress. As a child I wrote poems — secretly, in the dark — to the hum of a sewing machine. When I woke, my mother's stack of plain fabric had been transformed; it was now a ...

“Das himmlishe Leben,” about a child’s perspective on Heaven, is a poem (originally titled “Der Himmel hängt voll Geigen”) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a collection of German folk poems that Mahler set ...

5 Best Poetry Books On Love That Make Deeply Emotional Gifts Poetry books on love, life and wisdom are an emotional gift ...