During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

The title of the book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women Two Worlds” suggests a sense of foreboding. But for the two poets in the book, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, those times — in the ...

Is there a line between poem and song? Since poetry may have grown out of song, it is one of our oldest art forms. Brian Laidlaw and friends will give a contemporary feel to the cross-pollination of ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, Farai Chideya talks with Al Young, California's Poet Laureate, about the art and joys of poetry. His latest book, Something About the Blues, includes a CD of Young ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of two essays responding to Calvin Bedient’s “Against Conceptualism.” Read Rachel Galvin’s response here. These models . . . are so concerned with the work being done in the ...

Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman will read from, discuss and answer questions about “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women, Two Worlds” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande ...