What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
PBS

The Pulitzer Poet

The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, ...
The Irish Times

Thomas Kinsella: ‘Reading a poem requires the kind of care needed to cross the street’

Thomas Kinsella’s interview, with email questions from Adrienne Leavy in Phoenix, Arizona, and replies from Dublin, covers a broad array of issues, including his memories of growing up in ...
The New York Times

A Poet Who Looks to Nature, and Honors Its Secrets

In “The Hurting Kind,” Ada Limón stands with her readers before the frightening mysteries and hopeful uncertainties of the everyday. By Craig Morgan Teicher THE HURTING KIND Poems By Ada Limón The ...
Mental Floss

11 Offbeat Types of Poems You've Probably Never Heard Of

The clerihew is named for its inventor, English writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who remembered penning his first one as a teenager in school during the 1890s. Its subject was Sir Humphry Davy (which ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

A Collection Of Poems That Offers An Unlikely Kind Of Hope

In his second poetry collection, The New Testament, Jericho Brown weaves together strains of religious invocations with his uneasy identity as a... If further proof is needed — though of course it is ...
NPR

Here's what makes poetry and gardens a perfect pair, according to 2 poet-gardeners

Writers and gardeners Ross Gay and Tess Taylor and about what gardens and poetry can bring — including the reminder to breathe and nourish the body and soul. OK. Let's slow down for a moment. ROSS GAY ...