Three poems from that book, as well as poems from nearly a dozen more collections, and a multitude of uncollected poems, have been gathered under one cover in "Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961 ...

In the spirit of the new year and resolutions, I thought I’d make a suggestion. For those of you who resolve to read more books or to branch out in your reading tastes this year, try reading some ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was an English poet and one of the most popular poets of the Victorian Era. He was the longest-serving Poet Laureate of England, a position he enjoyed from 1852 ...

It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic had come into focus.

One of the great New Orleans-produced poets, Nicole Cooley is a master of the narratively themed collection. “The Afflicted Girls,” her 2004 volume about the Salem Witch Trials, is an unsung ...

April always brings some of the years' biggest poetry collections. So as it wraps up, we wanted to bring you two favorites — retrospective collections from Marie Howe and Jean Valentine.

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon for the last half-century.

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry ...