As an English professor and a poet, I face this question every day. The death of poetry would put me out of a job. Each year, I teach a required seminar called Studies in Poetry, in which I must ...

It turns out that Blazersedge.com, a Trail Blazers' fan website, is conducting a poetry contest. The finalists are listed on the site, but here's one of the entries: The flowers of my garden. Between ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

I BEGAN writing poetry because one Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a friend suggested that I should: the thought had never occurred to me. I scarcely knew any poems — The English Hymnal, the Psalms, ...

As you might expect from a U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera has a way with words. When we talked to him about his appointment, he shared his ideas on the act of writing, some of his ...

The Brattleboro Literary Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this fall, and though had hopes of running in-person events, are opting instead to keep the festival virtual this year, for the second ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As quaint and graceful as medieval guilds. Grouse feathers float away on the still lake. Summer and reeds; summer ...

Kent Johnson has a fanatic’s heart and a penchant for real estate, specifically the poetry market. His corner of that market has been a relentless, patently hysterical, coruscating survey of how ...

It's been a difficult year for many people. NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with poet Danez Smith about using poetry to understand and process complex emotions like grief. As the year comes to an end, we ...

Cannes: Jesse Plemons shines in a three-part — and nearly three-hour — movie about love, affection, and the other sick kinks that shape our psychosexual codependency. On paper, these characters may ...