April and National Poetry Month have ended, but that won't stop us from telling you about a new collection of poems. Even a real poetry lover might find a 1,132-page anthology a bit daunting. But The ...

“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...

“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

Poets, public figures, and everyday Americans join host Elisa New to read American poems. Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American ...

You'll never lose by picking up any book with Harold Bloom's name on it. (As Bob Dylan sings on his new album, "I say it so it must be so.") And I mean everything from the monumental ("The Western ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” doesn’t qualify as a great poem, but it might emerge as an important one. As a celebration of the commonplace and an exaltation of the ...