Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

Colgate can roll accounts of his life into ghazals ... $26.99), a welcome respite from almost every other serious book of poems you could read this year. Domestic calm and the chance to catch ...

It wasn’t until the time he had decorated the interior panels of our front door with red cloud-like shapes that I recalled a poetry reading where I heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds ...

That’s the title of one of Nicole Sealey’s many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast.” (It is also the final line of a ...