It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes. To further your festive spirit, you ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an "If I Had (blank)" ...

Roger McGough (The Collected Poems – Viking £25, 752pp) has been a beloved favourite of mine since he joined Adrian Henri and Brian Patten in the thrilling 1967 paperback The Mersey Sound.

Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

“Thret,” which is probably my favorite piece in the book, reads like a tiny crime novel with speculative elements. It’s hilarious and startling. All poems, of course, could be “fiction ...

I am far from the best student of Latin American poetry, but even a passing acquaintance with its canon will familiarise you with a lyric tradition that tends to value directness and clarity.