From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

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 ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

In the words of author Donika Kelly, the publication of her second poetry collection, The Renunciations, has been “a long time coming.” The University of Iowa assistant professor of English released ...

Readers are invited to see through the eyes of biblical figures, Mary, Judas, Peter, and others SINGAPORE, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For some, storytelling has long been one of humanity's tools ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...

After 38 years, 38 anthologies and two greatest hits collections, “The Best American Poetry” series is concluding with its 2025 edition. David Lehman, who conceived the series in 1987, launched it in ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the ...