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

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

Today The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings together the 25 most consequential poetry collections of the past 25 years, and ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic ...

If you've ever fancied yourself as a poet but don't quite have the lyrical and rhythmic skills one might require, Google's Verse by Verse tool can help you to craft the most delectable verse. The ...

As a lifelong reader of Scientific American, I was tickled to discover a little over a year ago that the magazine had carried poetry in its earliest issues. Volume I, Number 1, for example, dated 28 ...

“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...

Julian Peters illustrates a classic poem from American icon Langston Hughes. By Graeme McMillan April is National Poetry Month, and to mark the occasion, Plough Publishing Press is releasing a graphic ...