Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How can poetry help us now, when practically every morning brings a fresh assault on knowledge, wisdom and safety? Amid the cruel political discourse ...

Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.

Poems are only made of words, but powerfully engaging poetry can transcend written language. Three new books by Vermont poets create verbal and emotional intensity on the page by very different means.

Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...

Discover how poets like Kelvin 'KJ' Marshall and Margie 'Mia X' Johnson are using verse to foster racial healing and build ...

Mary Ellen Capek, Lou Liberty and Juan J. Morales, three poets you may not have heard of, have recently published collections of their work. The poets deserve wider recognition. Capek, of Corrales, ...

A new print anthology of collected works from the Nepantla online poetry journal. (image by Irmand Trujillo, courtesy of Christopher Soto) From my perspective, it is always contentious when an effort ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner... Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How ...