Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

Written on the blackboard of the Washington School classroom when Pace was in residence there were the five elements she considers essential to a poem: surprise, rhythm, pattern, line and images. On ...

In early 2023, the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) decided not only to include poems in their highly respected professional publication, but also to publish ...

“I have a confession to make: I don’t really understand poetry.” So goes the opening line of poet Matthew Zapruder’s forthcoming book “Why Poetry,” which looks at why a lot of people feel alienated by ...

Poetry of the Taliban is an English language anthology of poems written by the Afghan Taliban that give an insight into the lyrical souls of the members of this miltant group. Kandahar-based ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...

The first eight pages of Michael Robbins’s new book, “Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music” (Simon & Schuster), make reference to Annie Dillard, Harold Bloom, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, ...