You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

“I’d rather read a poem by Wordsworth or Yeats. There’s just so much available to us with complex beautiful expressions of ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

Genny Lim deftly interwove her poetry with ... the man who made a great tuna sandwich and loved Bob’s Big Boy restaurant, the ...

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

a way of life. Some of the early Mr Cogito poems are slight and forget­t­able; but “The En­voy of Mr Cogito” (1974) is one of the great poems of the 20th century. The poem can be read by ...

I try to carry on as normal, but this has completely upturned the foundation of my life - everything I thought was real. What ...

W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...