In the fifth essay of her new collection, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, poet Jane Hirshfield writes of a Japanese poem, “windows are the opening through which the luminous arrives.

Seamus Heaney matters, perhaps even more than he should, to many who are interested in poetry, in Ireland, or in both. For many critics the two blur. Of North, for example, Conor Cruise O’Brien said, ...

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

Learn how to get your ideas from your head and into your poem. Anyone can write poetry. You can write poetry about whatever you feel like, in whatever way you want, for whatever reason you choose.

As millennials, we consume more poetry through music than almost any other generation. But poetry and poets don't occupy a prominent place in our generation's cultural pantheon. Poetry may be ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...

Poetry of the Taliban is an English language anthology of poems written by the Afghan Taliban that give an insight into the lyrical souls of the members of this miltant group. Kandahar-based ...