Around the same time, Ilya Kaminsky's poem "We Lived Happily During the War" went viral. Similarly, in the wake of mass shootings and other tragedies in 2016, ...

The poem is a vessel; poetry is liquid. From time to time I’m asked, with bewilderment or derision, if this or that poem isn’t just “prose chopped into lines.” ...

I have many opportunities to interact with readers of poetry when I'm teaching or giving presentations, talks or readings. I often like to ask which poets people enjoy re-reading. Robert Frost is ...

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion.

Dear Ann Landers: A few years ago, you printed a poem in your column. I do not remember the name of it, but some of the lines were “Kisses aren’t promises” and “Even sunshin… ...

'Travel in Time' by Tanya Contos was picked by Boston.com as a winner of our Book Club's writing contest. Read her poem on Boston.com.