These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

Children don’t even read anymore. Omowunmi is trying to take over to see what can be done about it. People don’t seem to know ...

Everything is alive in its own way, singing” offers a poetry of observation and recognition of each person, each animal, each life form actually, ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Pat Ingoldsby, beloved poet and TV presenter, has died at 82, leaving behind a rich legacy in Irish literature ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

So, I am putting those ideas on my list ... Professor Dawes is the author of more than 30 poetry books and numerous other works, including essays, criticism and fiction. He is the recipient ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

I am a lawyer who appeals for their freedom ... a lawyer and the founder and chief executive of Freedom Reads. His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is forthcoming.

Book Review: Sweet Grant's Young Adult Debut 'I Am the Cage' Gives Resounding Voice ... In between the occasional poems, the narration is heavy on similes, metaphors, and understatedly dazzling ...