Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Throughout National Poetry Month, The Daily sat down with Slam Society members to hear what poetry means to them. Their poems touch on everything from gender to race to childhood memories, bringing ...

The year 1947, when Richard Wilbur, who died on Saturday, at ninety-six, published his first collection, also gave us Cleanth Brooks’s “The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry,” in ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, ...

I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...

What is the ethical power of literature? Can it diminish acts of injuring, and if it can, what aspects of literature deserve the credit? Attempting to account for “the sweeping change in everyday ...