Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife ...

During a dry period of writing, Creative Writing Associate Professor Maggie Dietz felt the stirrings of a new poem. Lines from “If You Would Let Me” came to her in waking dreams, she says. Several ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

A poetry collection. That could happen, right? Instead of pawing for your doomscrolling device, you could instead pick up 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 ...

“Next on deck is Shivani!” There aren’t many poetry spaces in Chicago where I share a name with someone else. There is typically no need for my last name on a sign-up sheet at an open mike. But at ...

The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost her dog Bear ...

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry columns ...

Prose poetry had a slow start in Australia. Long after 19th-century French poets, such as Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, wrote groundbreaking works of prose poetry, ...