Letter’s Arts & Entertainment section presents our specially curated picks of poetry from various contributing writers, staff ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s newest book, “Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry” is an easy read that packs a lot into its roughly 60 pages.

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

I can't tell you how the 2012 presidential election is going to turn out, nor can I say for certain whether The Office will outlast its first year without Steve Carell (though things are looking ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...

“The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is the voice of the poet addressing an audience, whether large or small. The third is the voice of the poet when he ...