Poetry can quite easily be seen as the poor relation of the arts. Collections of poetry sell in remarkably small numbers and almost nobody earns a living from writing the stuff. And yet, if the ...

What's a poet's best friend if not a dictionary? Poets are makers, etymology teaches us. They build out of words simple and complex, familiar and strange. The marvel of the poem is to be at once ...

Poetry is difficult to recreate in another language, as distinct from literal translation. But here Sergei Roy captures the urgency and tumbling succession of images of Boris Pasternak's original, ...

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So, what is visual poetry? To tell the truth, after seeing the exhibition "Brazilian Visual Poetry," I'm not really all that sure. I approached the show expecting it to deal with concrete poetry, a ...

Poetry has been labeled a dying art for almost as long as it has existed: It’s not what it used to be, and nobody reads it. Shakespeare’s contemporaries wondered if English could ever equal Latin.

Life in today's world can be frenetic and anxious; we are often too distracted to appreciate each other and our universe. Poetry demands that we pause and listen. "A poem is something that can't ...