As part of the Poetry Month celebration hosted by the Forward, we asked a number of poets about their practice. Today we’re featuring the highlights of the responses received. These are the highlights ...

This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...

Before winning the 1973 Pulitzer Prize, before bolstering the representation of women in contemporary poetry during her tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate, from 1981-82, Maxine Kumin began a fruitful ...

We’ve been inviting people to write and share their own poems in honor of National Poetry Month. And we’re learning that, for some of you, isolation is stirring long-dormant creative impulses. Here ...

When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash of panic — oh, no! Not smart enough. Such a dunce. My ...

When I told my parents that I was going to study poetry in college, they didn't flinch. It wasn't a curve ball. They weren't keeping their fingers crossed that I'd go to medical school. Their dreams ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- An Ohio poet says she cannot answer questions about her own poems on recent STAAR tests administered to middle schoolers in Texas. Two of Sara Holbrook's poems were published in the ...

Poetry reviewing is a controversial topic. Few publications review it at all, and with continually shrinking space for book reviews in general, poetry gets fewer column inches than ever, at least in ...

The important questions & answers of CBSE class 10 English are given here. These combined set of questions are only from the poetry chapters of the book ‘First Flight’. Students giving CBSE class 10 ...