April is National Poetry Month, and this week we revive an old tradition by devoting an entire issue to the form. But first we ask a very basic question: What is poetry, anyway? There’s no simple ...

Poetry has bloomed into art in Christina Bausch’s English I classes at Lawton High School.Bausch has hit upon a novel way to ...

The spoken word event featured poet Sarah Kay and performances from Stanford’s Spoken Word Collective, which disentangled ...

At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

We stayed inside so long. The moss is calling us. The leaves, the little flickers — bow down. Major Jackson’s mesmerizing fifth collection, “The Absurd Man,” conveys profound physical presences: ...