Modern poetry is markedly different from classic poetry. It relies less on meter and rhyme, and focuses more on biographical events and the everyday experiences of people. So why isn’t poetry more ...

Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication’s poetry critic — assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr’s clear, ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

In the month of April, we celebrated poetry. National Poetry Month was first established in April 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. Beautiful and moving poetry continues to be created each year, ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

Micheal O’Siadhail’s Desire and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Dear Dante are collections designed and erected meticulously in an ancient style that an avid reader is unlikely to see in much contemporary ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

The numbers behind "Language for a New Century" are impressive, if a little daunting: Collected here are poems from 59 countries and territories spanning Asia and the widest definition of the Asian ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

THREE vices of contemporary poetry (all with certain strong exceptions in his favor) appear in D. H. Lawrence’sLast Poems (Viking Press, $3.00): the dissolution of metric, the mawkish saturation of ...