Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, local poets have ...

This collection of 12 poems includes famous works like “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric,” which may stump modern poetry newbies at first. But read it out loud to fully ...

Contemporary poetry is fun, exciting, and so refreshingly accessible. Now's your time to pick up a collection and dive into verses that will snap you out of your morning commute. There really is ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous ... “every day is a funeral & a miracle,” one of the works in this collection announces with the confidence of a proverb. For the Black, queer ...

A graduate of New York University who went on to get a master’s degree in English from Harvard, Cullen was one of the most famous voices ... in Cullen’s 1927 poetry collection, Caroling ...

On April 1, she debuted her collection of poetry, Little Mercy. Little Mercy is being published by the prestigious small press Graywolf after winning the 2024 Academy of American Poets First Book ...

The collection brings Ceremonies back into print alongside a number of uncollected pieces pulled from the archives of such ...

"Penguin Poets" has released two new poetry books, "The Space Between Men" by Mia S. Willis and "Is This My Final Form?" by ...

By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it is that makes poets want to write in the first place. Here are seven facts about ...

John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.