In this roundup of poetry from the past year, 'America' editors and staff explore worlds of verse and fragments of reality that enchant and unsettle.

While thinking about metaphor, I somehow ended up talking about the "concrete and the abstract." I'll try to organize the way ...

They begin with them falling in love and embarking on a relationship which changes them, the worlds around them, their poetry ...

Modest though it may seem, I find Lupide's game a more gripping invocation of "choice" than many of the sliding-door ...

This subjection is all the more disappointing because at primary level, the teaching of poetry begins sympathetically in the ...

These heartfelt, profound and sometimes funny Thanksgiving poems are perfect for sharing during your Thanksgiving celebration ...

When writing tanka, there are times after I have placed a word when I wonder, "Why did I choose this word?"There are ...

Jiban Narah’s collection of Assamese lyrics, The Yellow Metaphor, has been translated into English by Anindita Kar. His decades-long practice has given him consummate mastery and imaginative control ...

In the early twentieth century, during the age of modernism, poetry was regarded as a noble and pure art form, elevated above and detached from the realities of ...

You name-check a book called, like, "Against World Literature," you know, the argument being that translating into English ...

So long, metaphor. We had a good run. Goodbye, “All the world’s a stage.” Farewell, “She’s a brick house.” See you later, the swamp (drained or undrained). Now we have a symbolic black hole in the ...