Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring vitality — and his new book reveals exactly why. A survey of American history through the “intimate eye” that only poetry can provide, Brown ...

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in a poem.

This is the second in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first installment here. Each side had its own claim to aesthetic and social righteousness.** Each side ...

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...

Reading poetry ought to be pleasurable. There, I said it. There's too much competition for our attention in the workaday world for it not to be. When a reader grabs a book of poems, he should expect ...

THERE is a very good reason why the relation of poetry to political revolution should interest our generation. Poetry, to most people, stands for the intensely personal life of the individual spirit.