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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary poets, including Hirsch, Ostriker, Sabrina Orah Mark and Cornelius Eady, appear in “After,” defending poetry as a necessary response to unfathomable evil and catastrophic ...