Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Recent anthologies that stand out include one that’s a feat of sustained translation and another that features poetry on the Covid crisis from across the world As we celebrated 200 years of Indian ...

Clark State College’s Creative Writer’s Club recently hosted and announced the winners of its regional poetry and essay contests. Students in the Voices of the Valley Poetry Contest and third annual ...

Logic and grammar are important. But for students to truly own the English language, they need to read and write poems. A few years ago, I was working for a science teacher professional development ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...

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 American people are living through a moment of seismic uncertainty and social shocks. One day, our president and vice president scream at a world leader in front of television cameras. Another, ...