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 ...

Futurism is much about art, but experimental poetry played a key role in its development, too, as we discover when we visit the exhibition Breaking Lines at the Estorick Collection in north London ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92.

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

New collections The Gone Thing, Silver and Modern Poetry offer, if not a solution to trying times in America, then a kind of truth-telling companion, a mirror with a real person on both sides of it.

Poetry mitigates this gap, affording glimpses of clarity. Authenticity to one's craft and environment eliminates concerns of relevance. Furthermore, relevance becomes a non-issue when writing is ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

MID-CENTURY AMERICAN POETS (300 pp )—Edited by John Ciardi—Tv/ayne ($4). Anthologist Ciardi, a Harvard professor and minor poet, 33, asked 15 “younger poets” (several are in their 403) to ...

Seuss is currently having an overdue run as one of our most decorated contemporary poets. Her third collection, “Four Legged Girl,” from 2015, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Her next ...

A freshman dorm mate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, ...

Ocean Vuong. Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong transformed modern poetry in 2016 by publishing his debut collection “Night Sky With Exit Wounds.” In exploring sexuality, childhood, and ...