In the run up to the judging meeting for this year's Forward prizes shortlist, I read nothing but poetry for three weeks. No newspapers, no magazines, no reference books and, crucially, no novels.

April 30, 2007 • Carl Dennis is the artist in residence at SUNY at Buffalo. "Thanksgiving Letter from Henry" is a poem from his most recent book, Unknown Friends, which will be released in April by ...

Doesn't look like poetry to me ... Lyrics to the Beatles' Day in the Life up for auction. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Recently, in a used bookstore I stumbled across a nice, reasonably priced copy of Bob ...

In previous years, Slatehas paid ambivalent heed to National Poetry Month by publishing poems against poetry, or poems in which the poet disparages other people (and their poems), or poems expressing ...

I have just finished reading about 1,000 poems submitted for America’s annual Foley poetry contest. Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion,” says he read 2,000 poems on the topic of spring to ...

Combining new and old poems from the last 13 years with sections of his lyric prose memoir, "Among the Trees," this selected offers admirers of Phillips's work a chance to revisit his masterful poems, ...

Poetry is a secret vocation for a surprisingly large number of people. Although the material rewards are fewask Emily Dickinson in the Great Coffeehouse in the Sky how much she earned for her ...