The author explores a personal struggle to emotionally connect with poetry.Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry reframes poetic ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

The poetry that does sell is produced by a new generation of social-media poets such as Donna Ashworth and Rupi Kaur. This is to the distress of intellectuals, for Instapoets’ verse is not the ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

Poetry Moment Presented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally ...

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.