Amanda Gorman’s latest poetry collection pierces the pandemic’s silence and isolation, speaking to our collective grief in a confounding historical moment. We began to lose words As trees forget their ...

Poetry in Motion A pair of picture books pays rhyming tribute to shapes and patriotism. Readers can enjoy concrete poems organized by season in Come to My Party: And Other Shape Poems by Heidi Roemer, ...

Elusive and magical, both silent and garrulous, both feared and beloved, Coyote is the ultimate contradiction — an animal associated with both wisdom and foolishness, cunning and buffoonery, ...

April is National Poetry Month, and there is cause for celebration. Not just of poetry itself but also of the fact that, as parents, teachers, publishers and kids know, the pleasure of poetry is a ...

Humankind may struggle to find the right words to describe thoughts and feelings but for concrete poets like Scotland's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who once said, ''The mind will always try to make words out ...

Bret Shepard’s achingly beautiful collection of poems, winner of the prestigious Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, is informed throughout by his childhood growing up in villages on Alaska’s North Slope, ...