John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Poetry. Isn`t that something you suffered through in an English class in high school? Isn`t that the sometimes-but-not-always rhyming stuff wherein lies the nucleus of boredom? Ain`t them the uppit… ...

Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix ...

The poem is a vessel; poetry is liquid. From time to time I’m asked, with bewilderment or derision, if this or that poem isn’t just “prose chopped into lines.” ...