Key points. Poetry can arouse profound emotions and lead to transformation. At times, all of us use the psychology of poetic language in everyday speech.

Nichols’ first volume of poetry I is A Long Memoried Woman (Karnak House, 1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. A later collection, Sunris (Virago, 1996), won the Guyana Prize for Poetry, and ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

C learly, T. S. Eliot is the most influential poet writing in English in our time. There is probably no living writer about whose work there has grown up such a body of critical commentary. So ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.