Whether you’re a lifelong poetry reader or are looking for your first collection to pick up, we’ve got something for you! Our writers cover new poetry, the best poetry for every reader, and more.
Here are 20 of the absolute best modern poets spinning verses, breaking lines, playing with form, and rhyming (or not) today.
A formal poem is one that sticks to a particular form. Here are 10 amazing and modern formal poetry books.
August brings with it the Sealey Challenge, an opportunity to infuse every day with poetry. Here are some collections to try.
After a dispute with the British Museum, Yilin Wang discusses the importance of feminist poet Qiu Jin and the complex work of translation.
These 8 disabled poets write about disability, but it's also about queerness, parenthood, nature, grief, work, relationships, and more.
Onto the poetry books that brought extra light to my past months of warm rain, later sunsets, and jasmine and gardenia blooms!
You may know her from her acting career or her singing, but Judy Garland was also a poetry lover (& writer!).
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which makes it the perfect time to pick up these incredible AAPI poetry books.
Nonfiction lovers, you're in luck, because there's so much great new nonfiction and poetry by AAPI authors to pick up right now.
After abandoning prose for week and enveloping myself entirely in poetry, slivers of me hoped I’d start thinking in lines of poetry.
