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… ...

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

I have written poetry since I was about 11. I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about my little sister, one about death, and one was full of silly nonsense.

But there are rules for specific types of poems. A haiku, for example, is traditionally a three-line poem whose first and third lines comprise five syllables, and whose second line has seven.

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 can feel mosaic-like, an arrangement of lines with implied contingency — it might have been otherwise. Take the poem “Qualm,” from A SYMMETRY (Norton, 97 pp., $26.95) , by Ari ...

Stephen Dunn's 17th collection of poetry, Lines of Defense, includes several works meditating on the death of his brother. Dunn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, often features everyday details in ...