“I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either — at least, not until I learned to stop worrying about “getting it.” In fact, “get” — with its connotation of ...

The close passing of the poetry critics Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler is a moment to recognize the end of an era. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Alan Thomas; Lilian Kemp / Radcliffe ...

Poems will mix multiple languages in “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a UCLA lecturer in Writing Programs, published her book in May. The book is a collection of 26 ...

A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books and taught ...

While listening to it, you can sense how deep of a place it comes from. It’s passionate and moving; it ignites action; and it showcases the true power of words. I’ve been drawn to spoken word poetry ...

After a year of the pandemic, poet Tess Taylor highlights some poems reflecting on the changing meaning of "home" over the past few months. For many people, the last year has been one of illness, loss ...

How can people renew their sense of faith in the future when everything around them seems bleak? For an answer to that question, poet Richard Blanco turned to the work of Ada Limón, a poet from Sonoma ...