“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 ...

For Our Own English High School Sharjah – Girls, creativity is a way of life, just as academics is. The school is known for ...

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 ...

A selection from The New Yorker’s year in poetry, including poems by Meena Alexander, Lucie Brock-Broido, Ada Limon, Jim Moore, and others.

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 ...

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.

What poems give us is a way to feel through the underlying dilemmas, ... Will we boil and boil long enough that we will at last find ourselves tired of our own bitterness. Q.

And I think the way in which you make that poem your own is something that's really, like, powerful for judges to see. Our masters always tried to hide book learning from our eyes.

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 ...

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.