Dream Latitudes is experimental in the best way; not showy or esoteric for the sake of it. Instead, this book creates the ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

In this installment of Lyric Nation, Jordan Davis reads three poems by Joseph Ceravolo: “Indian Song,” “Untitled” and “Hidden Bird.” The poems appeared in the December 10, 2012 issue of The Nation.

From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

Poet Amanda Gorman has released a new work, just in time for the year's end. And like her most famous poem, "The Hill We Climb," her latest aims to uplift its listeners during a challenging time.

Although Rita Dove has won most of the honors available to an American poet — she was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 1986 collection “Thomas and Beulah,” ...