As the editor of a magazine that includes a poetry column, I routinely read poems because I have to. But I also delve into ...

Is there something wrong with writing poems about writing poems? And if so, what? My friend Richard Howard was the first person who told me he didn’t approve of that subject, but since he said it ...

There’s a poem from Mary Oliver I’ve been meditating on lately: “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. There are plenty of lives and towns destroyed or about to be. We are not ...

That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...

KUNC is inviting you to celebrate National Poetry Month with us! We’re asking the community to share their poetic skills with ...