BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

He says that poetry offers an “invitation back into the world,” to confront the difficult and to help grapple with life both speakable and unspeakable while finding joy in the process. Whyte ...

There, the two talked about the joyful nitty-gritty of not only poetry, but the poets' wellspring, life. Scott Hocker is an award-winning freelance writer and editor at The Week Digital.

In last week’s column I mentioned I was going to cover a poetry collection then realized I needed to obtain permission to quote from the poems. So I have now asked the poet, Kim Dower ...