Keats was, in fact, an extraordinarily tough-minded fellow, full of energy and passion, who used poetry not as an escape from life but as a way of laying hands on it. His story, revealed not only ...

Other highpoints include a meditative ekphrastic poem “Three Colours Black”, after a painting by Glyn Philpot (reproduced here in full ... Books The literary world – well, the bit of it on X ...

Reflections of a Jewish Psychologist” includes poems that transport readers to psychological and spiritual spaces, like ...

Glenis Redmond is the first poet laureate of Greenville, S.C. The activist, teacher and poet is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist and has published six books of poetry, including Under the Sun (2002.) ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

Parini’s authority on poetry has been cultivated over five decades as a professor at Middlebury College and with the ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right ... around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this ...

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...

The 2024 Mic Check Poetry Fest, billed as a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create ...

Thanks to poet Gina Ferrara, I have had the pleasure of reading at the Poetry Buffet in New Orleans, a series that is as old as the Louisiana Book Festival. I first read at the Poetry Buffet Series 12 ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" — marking a full year of weekly columns ... 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review and has been shortlisted ...

This year has been a treasure trove of exciting new books. It’s been a particularly ... We’ve read multiple collections of poetry that speak to our current moment, while the varied world ...