I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...

Our poetry reviewer, Tess Taylor, received a stack of books over the course of this year to help encourage reading poetry. She began reading skeptically, but grew to love two of them: Why Poetry by ...

“Thought begins in disagreement, the terms of which demand to be articulated.” Robert Hass’s “A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry” is full of pithy, eloquently ...

Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...