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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Despite being kidnapped and enslaved at eight years old, Wheatley went on to become the first African American and the second woman to publish a book of poems, “Poems on Various Subjects ...

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, NBC Asian America — with the help of poet Bryan Thao Worra, a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellow in literature and president of the ...

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 ...

Octavio Paz, in his book the bow and the lyre ... In connection with World Poetry Day we leave you a list of contemporary Latin American poets. A story and at the same time the disease that ...