Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

On January 17, 2019 the world lost Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and national luminary, Mary Oliver. Oliver's brilliant prose is direct and inspired, linking together the human and natural world. Her ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

For a semester in college I tried out being a poet. I had not written many poems before, and have hardly written one since, but I sent in an application to the English department and found myself, one ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...