“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this ...

Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with Stephen Dunn, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about his collection, titled Different Hours. The winner in poetry this year was Stephen Dunn for his ...

We’re starting a new weekly column today, designed to give you a little literary treat: a different poem each Friday. “American Life in Poetry,” the column’s title, is supported by The Poetry ...

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...

Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani reading poems from his studio. Photo by Chelsea Querner. Oregon’s poetry hotline is back in service. Oregon poet laureate Anis Mojgani has relaunched the Tele-Poem Telephone ...

Just in time for National Poetry Month, the New Yorker Poetry Bot is back! Launched in 2017, to celebrate the magazine’s ninety-second anniversary, the bot offered readers a daily dose of poetry on ...

The Best American Poetry, an annual anthology of verse, contains an unusual contributor’s note this year. It’s written by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white poet who writes under the pseudonym Yi-Fen ...