This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Andrea Gibson wasn’t, in most circles, a gigantic celebrity—but their face and words were ...

Seek advice and suggestions from others. Another option is to ask a mentor or close friend to hear your short poem and go through it with you.

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...

Fly mentioned an accessible Montana poet he likes, Chris LaTray, who was the Montana Poet Laureate from 2023 to 2025. LaTray ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. What we gain by forgetting “Buying Shrimp at Bennetts Point,” a poem by Roey Leonardi ...