As a visiting poet in Maryland’s schools, I work with hundreds of students every year. I am often surprised by how powerfully poetry workshops affect emerging writers. Once, I was “in residence” with ...

Davis (Tina) intersperses long lists of fake band names with more traditionally structured poems about humankind’s foibles in his charmingly skewed fourth collection. The band names include such ...

Time to rhyme, or how to know it when you want to be a poet... During lockdown, so many of us rediscovered the restorative power of a damn good poem. But is it an art that’s hard to master? Inaugural ...

Because I'm a bookish young woman with little facility for poetry, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" has long been my favorite poem. My appreciation may be something of a cliche, but Bishop's villanelle ...

My poems are not my own. They have their own soul; they are sentient. I have to let them write themselves. A few months ago, I was in Los Angeles for a weekend attending the L.A. Times Festival of ...

Two new collections, “Night Watch” by Kevin Young and “Startlement: New and Selected Poems” by Ada Limón, showcase strikingly different voices in contemporary poetry. Young, poetry editor for the New ...