“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the ...

I think compassion, in a way, is one of the most important things poems do for me, and I trust do for other people. They allow us to feel how shared our fates are.

This Earth Month and National Poetry Month, I wonder if there can be a wider way to extend and build our spaces of patience, curiosity, attentiveness and care — in our own daily practices, our ...

Tracy K. Smith, our current U.S. Poet Laureate, testifies to the power of the experience on the part of the poets: “When I was a grad student getting my M.F.A., the Poetry in Motion posters ...

In doing so, you can enact the way in which many poems – even as they give voice to a sensibility outside our own – also appeal to us precisely because they seem to articulate our unuttered ...

What we call occasional poetry—verse written for or about an event, often ceremonial—reminds us that all poems have occasions, or should. Good poems capture a moment and sustain it. In an era ...

And I see poetry that way, too: truly a tool for building community. If you haven’t gone to a poetry event before, I highly encourage you to do so. Join the conversation.

Below is the text of Jersey City poet Melida Rodas' poem "THERE IN A CITY, Our JERSEY CITY," which she read at yesterday's swearing-in of Mayor Steve Fulop.

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but ...