Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, ...

Friday morning, America’s great poets will wake up to find that someone has TP-ed their trees and scrawled “COWARD” on the door. A 6,000-word jeremiad about the pathetic state of ...

More than most poets, Paul Hoover knows that people are bewildered and alienated by contemporary poetry. He even acknowledged the problem in one of his own poems, when he wrote: We want poems we ...

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 ...

Modern poetry made less terrifying Critic David Orr explains the mysteries and marvels of contemporary verse and the people who write it. By Laura Miller. Published April 6, 2011 12:30AM (EDT) ...

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

Modern poetry is very complicated because it requires a lot of its readers. However, that doesn’t mean it’s too complicated. Sure some poems make you feel like you’re wading through ...

How I came to understand modern poetry When asked to moderate in-depth conversations with leading poets in front of an audience, Ron Charles realised he knew nothing about contemporary poetry.

The poem Howl was first published by the Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in his Pocket Poets Series in the 1950s. It had the same effect on the then contemporary poetry scene as a drunken minotaur ...

Amanda Gorman (Image source: Instagram – @amandascgorman) April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate and inform, here is a list of 10 of the best and most influential living Black poets.

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