I have been moving books between one house and another, doing a quinquennial cull to donate to libraries. In flux, I can’t make a firm census of the poetry books I cannot bear to do without, but there ...

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins (Random House, 172 pp., $21.95) The associated press report of Billy Collins's appointment as poet laureate in June was a ...

How It Is: Selected Poems by Neil Shepard, Salmon Poetry, 178 pages. $25. Every book is a new adventure — or something like that — but Neil Shepard‘s How It Is: Selected Poems gathers an unusually ...

It’s difficult to pluck out just one poem from Ilya Kaminsky’s book “Deaf Republic,” because the volume operates best as an occasion versus a moment. This plain-spoken simple poem summarizes a main ...

Teachers Day Poems 2025: On September 5, we all celebrate the day dedicated to our beloved teachers in different ways. Some students share heartfelt messages, some create handmade greeting cards, and ...

There's a taste in poetry—as in many other things, including movies and food and maybe even in people—for what is plain, straightforward, and unadorned. This predilection can be childish (some ...

Another international milestone was crossed recently by Indian poetry for English. An English publisher has chosen to publish, and make available for distribution in and outside India, an annual ...