Today showcases a poetic form we haven’t used in The New York Sun’s Poem of the Day feature: the pantoum. This repetitive form comes to us as an import, via the French, from Malaysia, and it consists ...

Editor's note: Bob Lind died Aug. 2, but he always wrote columns months in advance of publication. The Forum will continue to publish Lind's remaining columns like the one below. Last Flag Day, ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, ...

Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife with socio-political commentary. Well, I'm here to tell you there are ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...