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 ...

Wilbur places part of the blame for the neglect of poetry on ‘the laziness and uneasy pride of a half-educated and excessively comfortable middle class, whose intelligences have so long been ...

3 ARIEL Sylvia Plath The book burns with hate, love, self-loathing and anger. Plath wandered down among the roots of poetry, illuminating it - and then became her own fuel.

And in response, books are published about how to bring poetry back to life or how to better appreciate it. Well, Tess read this year's crop so that you don't have to.

To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the likes of Homer, Virgil and Dante ...

My edition of Oscar Williams's A Pocket Book of Modern Poetry had been reprinted nineteen times in fourteen years. Untermeyer and Williams prided themselves on keeping their anthologies broad ...

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

Kwame Alexander joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'This Is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets'.

Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication's poetry critic -- assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr's clear, down ...

The readings suggest that poetry generators, like contemporary technologies in general, advance towards increasingly autonomous cognitive abilities.