Poetry January 2012 Archive

Years ago, in gathering our anthology of Classic Love Poems for Valentine’s Day, we focused on straightforward declarations of love, poems of seduction and promise, celebrating the beauties and virtues ... Read More

It’s Burns Night, and the Scottish bard’s poems are being declaimed all over the world. Scottish first minister Alex Salmond naturally chose this date to launch his government’s “consultation” on ... Read More

James Franco played him in Howl in 2010... Now Daniel Radcliffe, who grew up in front of the world in the eight Harry Potter films, will take on the role ... Read More

A poem can contain a dangerous power—certainly some governments see poems as threats to their authority, and through the centuries many poets have been rebels, agitators and advocates—in their poems ... Read More

Crafting the lines to be carved on a tombstone, distilling the essence of a life into a brief final statement is an innately poetic task, one that has often fallen ... Read More

Learn’t by Heart When you find a poem you really love, you will want to carry it in your heart instead of a book. It’s not so hard to do: try ... Read More

Read a Poem Every Day for a Month Sign up for A Month of Poems, our email sequence of 30 classic poems that everyone ought to know by 30 different great ... Read More

Send Your Poems Out for Publication! So you’ve begun a collection of poems, or you’ve been writing for years and hiding them away in a drawer, and you think some of ... Read More

Make More Poems! About Poetry Guide Bob Holman has lots of tricks to unblock, tap your poetic springs, get the poems flowing, write first time, every time, and we’ve brought them ... Read More