Poetry books have become one of the least checked out collections in a library; often being left behind until there is an academic assignment or a quote is needed. However, when it comes to poetry, it ...

Kent Johnson has a fanatic’s heart and a penchant for real estate, specifically the poetry market. His corner of that market has been a relentless, patently hysterical, coruscating survey of how ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

“Poetry is really for everyone,” says Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s poet laureate. So if you think you don’t like poetry, maybe it’s because you haven’t found the right poem yet. “Not every poem is for ...

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, ...

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word “best” and ...

Poet Kevin Young says there are so many different kinds of poetry, even people who think they hate it should reassess. "I think of [poetry] more like music," Young told me last year. "Like, if someone ...