In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...

Last summer, bleary, disheartened, and often angry from more than two years of seemingly nonstop doomscrolling, I decided it was time for a big change. I needed to switch the channel, stop watching ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

“I remember the moment it happened. I was in a class at George Mason University. It was a contemporary poetry class, and we were reading the Poulin anthology, the contemporary American poetry ...

John Liles. Yale Univ., Mar. 25 ($45, ISBN 978-0-300-27941-2) Science, the natural world, and the threat of climate change animate this debut from the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

In 1980, at the height of what might be called the Era of Confessional Poetry, a literary period characterized by its obsessive inward gaze, two young poets named Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell, with ...

Charles Hartman studies and practices poetry, jazz, and computer programming, and all three find their way into the classroom. Hartman teaches classes in the writing of poetry, modern poetry, ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate as the experience of early motherhood and the evanescence of dreams, died ...