You'll never lose by picking up any book with Harold Bloom's name on it. (As Bob Dylan sings on his new album, "I say it so it must be so.") And I mean everything from the monumental ("The Western ...

“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic ...

Poets, public figures, and everyday Americans join host Elisa New to read American poems. Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

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 ...

At a ministerial meeting I at­tended last fall, a pastor shared with the group that he’d used his summer vacation to read through the back issues of the Christian Century that were stacked in a pile ...

Acclaimed poet and author Brenda Marie Osbey will recite a specially commissioned poem to continue the 50 th anniversary commemoration of the first three African-American residential students at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington DC on January ...