Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Ange Mlinko’s Foxglovewise is dazzling; richly musical, assuredly well-built poems full of a sure-footed combination of ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

Today The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings together the 25 most consequential poetry collections of the past 25 years, and ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

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From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ever been a book of poetry that addresses postpartum depression as directly as ...