As an English professor and a poet, I face this question every day. The death of poetry would put me out of a job. Each year, I teach a required seminar called Studies in Poetry, in which I must ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Poetry books have become one of the least checked out collections in a library; often being left behind until there is an academic assignment or a quote is needed. However, when it comes to poetry, it ...

NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Poet Kevin Young says there are so many different kinds of poetry, even people who think they hate it should reassess. "I think of [poetry] more like music," Young told me last year. "Like, if someone ...

Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. She began her three-year term at the beginning of this year. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity ...

“Poetry is really for everyone,” says Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s poet laureate. So if you think you don’t like poetry, maybe it’s because you haven’t found the right poem yet. “Not every poem is for ...