Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

The couplets fly, the rhymes collide, and the air is thick with refrains and stanzas, iambic pentameters and hexameters Even if you're not a poet, you can find inspiration in verse. Novelists do it ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Natasha Trethewey — former Poet Laureate of the United States — has a new collection of poems out about American history, personal history, and the lives of people who are often overlooked by history ...