We’ve been having fun with moving poetry pictures since the very beginning of this site -- Bob Holman produced the United States of Poetry PBS series before becoming a Poetry ... Read More

Since ancient times, poets have used acrostics to embed “secret” messages in their poems (not so secret, actually -- an acrostic poem spells out its subject in the first letter ... Read More

Robert Burns, “Rabbie Burns,” is Scotland’s most famous poet, a cultural icon whose name is to this day synonymous with Scottish life and the Scots language. Like William Blake, he ... Read More

Classic Lit Guide Esther Lombardi reminds us that January 22 is “Byron Day,” the birthday of George Gordon, Lord Byron. He was the descendant of English naval officers and barons ... Read More

First published in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads in 1798, it’s one of the great narrative poems -- a parable demanding respect for God’s creations, all creatures ... Read More

We’ve taken Bob Holman’s choices of the best poetry books published in 2007, from Alice Notley, Helen Adam, Philip Whalen, Aram Saroyan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Aracelis Girmay and Amiri Baraka, ... Read More

There have been times in my life when, disdaining the bad poetry I heard too much of at open readings, I set the concept of “poetry as therapy” against “poetry ... Read More

We’ve posted a number of times here about “the poetry of place,” poetry’s often-intimate connection with the poet’s home place, and the celebration of poets’ homes after their passing as ... Read More

There’s something about the number 7: it has long been associated with luck, it’s the right length for easily memorable phone numbers, it’s the traditional number of the virtues and ... Read More