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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

The sculptor Carl Andre dabbled in poetry a number of years ago. Like the many examples of concrete poetry that were sprouting up around the same time, his poems focused more on the typographical ...

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 ...

When it came to brainstorming ideas for this column, I had a bit of writer’s block. I’ve already covered my favorite weirdly organized novels and the joys of nonfiction and horror novels, so what on ...