We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...

From haibun to haiku, ghazals to concrete poems, our poets have been experimenting with form with a serious engagement.

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again. There are endless amounts of silly, whimsical and funny poems sure ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

“There’s something about poetry that satisfies the puzzle player in me. Word play makes me shout and clap my hands. I love quiet poems, too—poems that are (on the surface) about nothing, poems that ...

"Sun on the Muddy," a new book of poetry, has been published by Armenti, accompanied by photos from local photographer Dave ...