Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

Ezequiel Correa, 17, says he sees poetry as an essential political tool — one that he’s brought to bear in front of some of ...

We use language constantly… texting, thinking, venting, overthinking. But most of the time, we’re using words to get through the day, not to check in with ourselves. You might be saying “I’m fine” out ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Others wrestle with more serious topics like a patient dying of cancer, or marvel at the magic of now-quotidien medical technologies like CT machines. At first, Campo says, he got about 20 or 30 poems ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, who captured the world's attention when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, will be published December 7. Gorman’s ...

Audre Lorde told us this in 1977. Although she spoke specifically to women, I hope she won’t mind me saying that her words can apply to other folks, too. She wrote: “poetry is not a luxury. It is a ...

We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be ...