Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

In a poem midway through Mark Jarman’s collection The Heronry, a student on a trip abroad (to France?) makes trouble for herself. She loses her passport, skips class, gets drunk, and gets arrested.

Recently I was driving the Interstate early on a Saturday night, heading to the Big City for a Big Night with my baby. NPR news had finished, and, in my part of the world anyway, just as night follows ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

Each Thursday, The Arty Semite features excerpts and reviews of the best contemporary Jewish poetry. This week, Zackary Sholem Berger reviews “70 Faces” by Rachel Barenblat. There are a few very good ...

To stave of that I-want-to-drive-off-a-cliff boredom that ensnares us all before the weekend, I like to post reader-submitted poems based off CBS news stories every Friday. They are entertaining. They ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. “The word tender comes to mind,” says Tamara Wellons ...

April, as you hopefully know, is National Poetry Month. And, as you hopefully also know, having a good drink while reading a good poem is one of the world’s delightful combos. I strongly suggest you ...