Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

In “The Serious World,” the latest collection from former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read, the poem “Dear Sylvia,” addressed ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

This week’s poem, John Paul Caponigro’s “Worms,” is only partially a poem about eating worms. It is also an example of a ...

Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was ...

Abigail Levine’s new work, at Target Margin Theater, is terrific as a kind of enhanced reading, but lags on the level of ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a ...

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey read a poem about a battered boxer at an Italian museum in his first performance since sexual assault charges against him were dropped. Spacey stood next to the bronze ...

Sometimes, when you read a poem, it feels as if it were crafted just for you, as though the poet could see directly into your ...