With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets are peerless when it comes to putting our deepest emotions ...

April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Among poems read so far are "Resolution #1" by June Jordan, "For Saundra" by Nikki Giovanni, "The Orange" by Wendy Cope, "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black" by Cortney Lamar, "On Loss" by Sequoia ...

A reading by American Book Award–winning poet dg nanouk okpik. okpik’s second collection of poems, "Blood Snow," tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a ...