I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

One morning in 2005, Grace Curtis was getting ready for work as she normally did. There wasn’t anything particularly special about that morning, although Grace admits her only child, a daughter, was ...

The same problem persists—e-books and poetry just don’t get along as well as e-books and prose. It’s those line breaks, poetry’s defining feature. The problem is a simple sounding one, but really ...

Most mornings, after I make coffee and feed the cat, I sit in the black chair with my oatmeal and read a poem … or two. I savor the words and the sound of the words. It’s a visitation, really. A ...

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Natasha Trethewey — former Poet Laureate of the United States — has a new collection of poems out about American history, personal history, and the lives of people who are often overlooked by history ...

For six years I have been interviewing poets, some 25 of them, a process that began with a graduate thesis project. The project focused on the intersections of poetry, religion and the writing process ...

This year, National Poetry Month brings an ambitious collaboration: a cross-country relay race of 54 poets contributing to one poem about America. The practice is known as renga, an ancient Japanese ...