Sometimes when you wake up in the morning, before you’ve ascended from sleep to a rational comprehension of the world, the oddest words and images appear. It was in such a moment the other day — I’ve ...

I find it hard to understand why most people never, literally never, read poetry. The best poetry discloses in a few lines more than whole volumes of other writing begin to do. The best poetry deals ...

Why is everyone transgender all of a sudden, I can hear the voices asking. Voices of people I know, from places I grew up, or even where I live now. Are they “transitioning” just to be difficult, to ...

When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...

In recognition of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, YaleNews recently met with David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, to talk about some of the most noted poets of that period ...

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Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across Southern ...

Sometime in the late nineties I made my first acquaintance with a group of poets writing in Bengali, who were my introduction to the turbulent undercurrents of Bengali verse-writing which like a ...

The words are bound in blood and speak of graves and broken bones. The poetry radiating from the Syrian civil war echoes with nostalgia, bombs and betrayals; it slips into the lives of torn-apart ...