I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

The poet Diane Seuss and I began a recent conversation by talking about the burdens of companionship—or, at least, how those burdens are manifested through affection for a pet. Seuss lost her dog Bear ...

MID-CENTURY AMERICAN POETS (300 pp )—Edited by John Ciardi—Tv/ayne ($4). Anthologist Ciardi, a Harvard professor and minor poet, 33, asked 15 “younger poets” (several are in their 403) to contribute a ...

Baruch November’s new book, The Broken Heart Is The Master Key, fuses Talmudic influences, humor, and inspiration to overcome obstacles. With the chaos and problems in the world, some would say there ...

Her own verse has helped bring poetry off the page and into people's lives, but which poets and collections have inspired ...

Lyric poets and mathematicians, by general agreement, do their best work young, while composers and conductors are evergreen, doing their best work, or more work of the same kind, as they age.

Poetry can be one of the more intimidating literary genres to shop for, especially if you’re buying a book for someone else. While the likes of Amanda Gorman, Ocean Vuong, and Rupi Kaur have recently ...

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