During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Readers are generally well advised to keep away from books whose titles contain the words best or greatest in conjunction with poems or poetry. Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George ...

Is there a line between poem and song? Since poetry may have grown out of song, it is one of our oldest art forms. Brian Laidlaw and friends will give a contemporary feel to the cross-pollination of ...

The poet Andrew Weatherhead once tweeted, “The best way to read a poem is to pretend each line is the name of a horse; so the poem is just a list of horses.” This joke says something serious about ...