During the last week of National Poetry Month in 2014, we featured snippets of Times articles you can use to create and share your own short poems ... Since we’re both in our early 50s, we ...

Hirshfield has just published two new books: a collection of her own poetry called The ... They allow us to feel how shared our fates are. I think compassion, in a way, is one of the most ...

The way loneliness skulks in one of Elizabeth Acevedo’s poems probably would have felt familiar even before the pandemic forced us into more isolating situations. Beginning with the line “it ...

Those poems that ... make up our city,” she says. “Poetry that is discovered in unexpected places like a crowded subway car or a city bus can provide a window into another way of thinking ...

Partly because that’s what they do—they think about things that are going on—but partly because they take their own ... poetry. That’s why poetry is with us at the most important occasions ...

What we call occasional poetry—verse written for or about an ... Halting like a headless hant in our own house, Waiting to remember exactly What it is we’re supposed to be doing.

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 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. Knowledge didn ...