For many, poetry is a form of self-expression, and pen and paper are a chance for escape and daydreams and everything in ...

So many of her poems are about things that kids pay a lot of attention to, like bees and insects and snakes and death,” Pierce Bonifaz said. “So it was really easy for the students to have a ...

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

Why are so many poems in today’s magazines about sorrow and misery or freakish, even disturbing language or images? Where are the lust-for-life poems, the poems that crave adventure and new ...

It’s possible to study more “conventional” and “archaic” kinds of poetry at Kenyon. I mean, I took a class on Chaucer my sophomore year, where I voraciously read rhyming epics about talking birds. I ...