Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Ange Mlinko’s Foxglovewise is dazzling; richly musical, assuredly well-built poems full of a sure-footed combination of ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Bloom made his critical reputation with a book called The Anxiety of Influence, where he argued that poetry proceeds on the misreadings by strong poets of their predecessors. In this massive anthology ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Take away the music and the melody of a song and you are left with just the words. WDRB's Keith Kaiser orchestrates a game of Lyrical Poetry. Each of the WDRB Mornings crew ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ever been a book of poetry that addresses postpartum depression as directly as ...