As guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024, Mary Jo Salter spent last year scouring literary journals for 75 of the best poems from 75 different poets. To appear in the volume is a coveted honor ...

Our guests discuss what makes a poem political. Our guests discuss what makes a poem political, why both outside agitators and political insiders turn to poetry to express their views, persuade the ...

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

Young poets from across the state joined with officials including first lady Lori Shapiro today in a reveal celebration of ...

Suzanne Lummis, one of Los Angeles' most venerated poets, has two new books this year. Marc Haefele talked to her about L.A. poets, Philip Levine and what makes a bad poem bad. Charles Lummis, one of ...

A federal judge has ruled that compiling Dorothy Parker’s poems was a far less original act than writing them. The editor of a book of uncollected work by the late author did not show enough ...

How Poems Work is a marvellous feature of the Books section and has sparked a renewed interest in poetry for me. But the Nov. 3 dissection of The Women Washing Dishes raises the question of what turns ...