My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

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

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

A Chicago-based coin and antiquities dealer claims it has uncovered a previously unknown poem by American poet James Whitcomb ...

Wichita poet Albert Goldbarth was included in a New Yorker anthology this year, but he doesn’t necessarily want to discuss it ...

Beside our fireplace mantle at the lake we have a small framed copy of this poem. I have loved it for its sounds, more than ...

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” ...

The Al Purdy A-Frame Association (APAFA) has announced a longlist of ten titles for the second annual Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book ...

Here are six more poems that deal in different ways with giant monsters: 1. Beowulf Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated ...

For me, poem number 1 (the orphanage arsonist), was an acceptable answer, though this might have changed if the ending to my poem had been different and framed things more favourably.

But if I propose a beginning to students, one that will acclimate them to the sweep of English poetry, it is to read poems aloud. Hearing poems for the first time rather than reading them will give us ...

In their fourth collection of poems, 'Bluff,' Danez Smith's writing pulses and pops, exploring ruptures we all recognize ...