At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even be called poetry. It was humiliating.

Summer is the perfect season to dive into the world of poetry. With six free summer acrostic poem templates, half in color and half ready to be decorated, you can craft your own acrostic poems ...

Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

In his 1919 translation of “In the Mountains on a Summer Day,” for example, Waley gave his readers a genuine sense of the juxtaposed observations that build a scene in Li Po’s poetry. In the Mountains ...

Poetry Connection: This week, we feature a young poet who works at the Loan Closet. Meet Miguel Hernandez from Santa Barbara. He writes: “I am 24 years old, born and raised in Santa Barbara. I have ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...