Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...
For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...
WoMag editor Victor D. Infante had never heard of Worcester when he met the 1996 Worcester Poetry Slam Team in Oregon. Then ...
Last fall I visited Ann Lauterbach, a poet of verity and the splendid particular, at her renovated schoolhouse in upstate New York, where every corner reveals lovely and curious objects—exquisite and ...
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As Calgary’s poet laureate, I’m interested in poetry as a form of civic listening
“Should taxpayers fund poetry or potholes?” Since my appointment as Calgary’s poet laureate, I have heard versions of this question more than once. Invoking taxpayer outrage is a familiar way of ...
Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift 01.29 When we look up at stars on break we see only stars behind the exhaled Milky Way ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...
April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...
Jim Gallagher rose from his chair, wincing in pain, and I watched as he shuffled across the waiting room toward me. As we shook hands at the door to my office, I was struck by the difference between ...
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