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

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 ...

The poem Howl was first published by the Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in his Pocket Poets Series in the 1950s. It had the same effect on the then contemporary poetry scene as a drunken minotaur ...

There is undoubtedly much truth in Wilbur’s observation; it would be even more convincing if his own not-too-difficult poetry offered more honest pleasure. The Old Themes.

From seven books of poems written during twenty-five years of honorably single-minded effort, John Gould Fletcher has gathered in Selected Poems (Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50) the best of his work.

New collections ‘The Gone Thing,’ ‘Silver’ and ‘Modern Poetry’ each offer a mirror with a real person on both sides of it.

How I came to understand modern poetry When asked to moderate in-depth conversations with leading poets in front of an audience, Ron Charles realised he knew nothing about contemporary poetry.

A follow-up, “ frank: sonnets,” was released in 2021 and won a Pulitzer. Her most recent collection, “ Modern Poetry,” takes its name from the first poetry book Seuss ever read.

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 ...

I didn’t think I understood modern poetry. The less I tried to get it, the more I came to love it.