Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

How has war shaped your world view and writing?I think war is the most common and steadfast reality of our species. If you think of the first works, I mean, The Mahabharata is about war. Gilgamesh, ...

One advantage I have always held in the literary arts is speed. I am a fast reader and an even faster scanner. I can draft ...

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

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at St. Gregory’s High School.

In these poems, written in the last seven years of his life, he lovingly and lingeringly catalogues objects: surf and “the falling of small waters,” fields and abandoned farms, vireos ...