Finally, we limited the list to Americans: Asking 25 books to represent 25 years of artistic progress within the many traditions that feed into American poetry was difficult enough. For all the ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate ...

The books gathered here touch on everything from ... appraising eye to anticipate and invent a new direction for American poetry.

Here are five books that suggest that even if American poetry isn't entirely sure where it's going, that doesn't mean it's gotten lost. A good bit of the work in Charles North's What it is Like is ...

“The Best American Poetry 2015,” published by Scribner, was released Tuesday. Sign up for our Book Club newsletter Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book ...

That’s also true of poetry criticism of this quality. I like unusual books. Here’s what I’d read — if I had time. Hirsch’s substantial volume honors the whole range of American verse ...

“Sixteen different manuscripts of poetry written in 1985 and ... Read this way, the book feels like a powerful volume of American history, in which poets beginning with Phyllis Wheatley, the ...

Now’s the time for “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” Terrance Hayes’ electric, new book. In his five previous poetry collections — “Muscular Music” (1999), “Hip ...

The Dolphin possesses an equivocal legacy. It is perhaps the most infamous book in modern American poetry. Lowell’s great transgression was one of unchecked license, the siphoning of Hardwick ...