As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

The couplets fly, the rhymes collide, and the air is thick with refrains and stanzas, iambic pentameters and hexameters Even if you're not a poet, you can find inspiration in verse. Novelists do it ...

Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very accomplished Alaska poets, each of whom has a new book entering the world.

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

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.

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...

This week’s Title Search puzzle highlights prose and poetry by Irish authors. The titles of 13 such books are hidden below within an unrelated text passage. As you read along, tap or click the words ...

Poems of Basingstoke, written by history enthusiast Liam Harding, explores the Hampshire town’s past through verse. The book, which is written with the assistance of artificial intelligence, ...

Paul Hetherington has worked with, edited and been on judging panels with numerous poets. In the last decade, he has collaborated with Distinguished Professor Cassandra Atherton on various scholarly ...