Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable peop...

In Australia, not reading poetry is th...

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love...

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for...

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in whic...

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a li...

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going t...

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the m...

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't h...

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm...

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myth...

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice i...