Meadowlark Press has announced the January release of The Marvelous Real, the debut poetry collection by Tess Barry, a ...

Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th ...

More than a decade ago, Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kiper self-published a book of poetry filled with sexual ...

Sample helped to plot Cage’s trajectory toward the outer limits of art. He also made an impression on Hay, who, in his 1996 ...

This is what mattered to me this year out of the small patch of that million-book forest I managed to walk through.

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Wellwater is a poetry collection which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises. Celebrating ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...