The familiar cycle of denouncements and defenses of poetry never seems to have much to do with anyone's actual experience of, say, John Ashbery. You know these pieces from highbrow magazines: The ...

Poetry has been labeled a dying art for almost as long as it has existed: It’s not what it used to be, and nobody reads it. Shakespeare’s contemporaries wondered if English could ever equal Latin.

The familiar cycle of denouncements and defenses of poetry never seems to have much to do with anyone's actual experience of, say, John Ashbery. You know these pieces from highbrow magazines: The ...

Poets love to define poetry. And because poetry is so difficult to define, the definitions tend to be allusive and ambiguous. And yet, I love them, because they are also wonderfully alluring. "Poetry ...

Nairobi — IS THERE GOOD AND BAD POETry? That question was the focus of a panel discussion that brought together poets, journalists, publishers and literary critics at the 10th Nairobi International ...

Editor’s note: The Chicago poetry scene is legendary. This town is the birth of the slam, the home of POETRY magazine, and stomping grounds of some of the most talented poets in the nation. For this ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Don’t ask Carol Ann Davis to define poetry. When her new students arrive at the College of ...

Thursday is Take a Break for Poetry Day. I would like to suggest that every day one should take a break for reading or listening to poetry. Sometimes when I have proposed spending time with poetry my ...