Writer Michael Salinger has some unexpected advice for anyone who wants to start writing: don't — at least not right away.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

She kneaded the dough of cruel words,balled it into twelve,smoothened each with a stroke of ghee,and spanked hard on the one ...

In honor of the pollen that has mysteriously appeared on my car this morning, here are some poems related to spring, the ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Easterine Kire's poetry collection, Freerain, explores nature, memory, and life with lyrical beauty and profound insight.

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

That poem stays in my brain. I say it to myself over and over throughout the last 50, 60 years. LIMBONG: Well, give us a little bit of it. PARINI: Oh, it's very short. The way a crow shook down on me ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.