A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Three new poetry collections by women both well-rooted in Alaska and well-traveled in the world share close attention to the world and compassion for all its beings while bringing very different ...

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

Langston Hughes. Legacy Lit, Nov. 5 ($25, ISBN 978-1-5387-6891-4) This collection showcases the Harlem Renaissance poet’s writings from 1919 to 1929, including poems published in the NAACP magazine ...

The Poem/1 clock tells the time with short two-line rhymes composed with help from ChatGPT. What time is it? Time for a clock that counts the hours with rhyming AI-generated poems. “Colors mingle, ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Reginald Dwayne Betts has authored four collections of poetry and a memoir. He's also a lawyer and an educator. So his is a life in words, but his route to that life was a ...

With National Poetry Month comes spring flowers and some of the year's biggest poetry publications. And as April wraps up, we wanted to bring you two of our favorites — retrospective collections from ...

Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and ...

That story suggests the underlying foundation of Henry’s new collection of poetry, simply titled Gun Poems. In these verses, ...