April and National Poetry Month have ended, but that won't stop us from telling you about a new collection of poems. Even a real poetry lover might find a 1,132-page anthology a bit daunting. But The ...

“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” doesn’t qualify as a great poem, but it might emerge as an important one. As a celebration of the commonplace and an exaltation of the ...

“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

Opening with the proto-feminist Puritan poems of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and closing with the reorienting poems of Joy Harjo of the Muskogee Nation (1951–), Chicago-born poet and literary critic ...

Poets, public figures, and everyday Americans join host Elisa New to read American poems. Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry. In each episode, members of various American ...

Lehman's cheerfully eclectic, determinedly accessible and defiantly sex-positive collection\x97a savvy extension of his successful Best American Poetry franchise\x97marches from an unlikely beginning ...