Spring is here, awakening the forsythia, crocuses and poets. Many of this month's winning poems deal with some aspect of spring, from its annual awakening to one poet's desire to die in the season of ...

Through stories of suffering and survival, these collections explore desire, healing, the vulnerabilities of the body, the command of desire, and the impact of history. Rigoberto González. Fourway, ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

John Liles. Yale Univ., Mar. 25 ($45, ISBN 978-0-300-27941-2) Science, the natural world, and the threat of climate change animate this debut from the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the ...