During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...