April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

Last fall I visited Ann Lauterbach, a poet of verity and the splendid particular, at her renovated schoolhouse in upstate New York, where every corner reveals lovely and curious objects—exquisite and ...

For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

Poetry doesn’t need to be meticulously studied. Like a novel, you can curl up on the sofa and read it for pleasure. Oqvector/Shuttertsock One of the things you get asked most when people find out that ...

It’s already April, which means that National Poetry Month is upon us once again. This is a time to celebrate poets and poetry. While those in the literary and poetry communities are honoring this ...

Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift 01.29 When we look up at stars on break we see only stars behind the exhaled Milky Way ...