In "What Poetry Brings to Business," Clare Morgan combines academic and business styles to explain the benefits poetry can provide to business enterprises.

It’s not a new thing for a poet to take common everyday things, the riffraff of our lives, and use them to signify or explain something larger. Glynn Young reviews Stephen Cushman's "Riffraff: Poems" with special attention to the unique ways Cushman makes something of the riffraff.

"Child Made of Sand" is not the poetry of youth; it is the poetry of wisdom and understanding. Glynn Young reviews Thomas Lux's new collection of poems.

We announce the winner of the giveaway for "Prayers of a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Glynn Young reviews Rainer Maria Rilke's "Prayers of a Young Poet," a wonderfully engaging collection, adding new insight to both the man and his poetry.

What does poetry have to say to Isaac and Ishmael, Jew and Palestinian? More than one might expect. Certainly more than I expected. Poet Elana Bell has taught poetry to educators, prisoners, and high school students. Some of those students are in New York City, where Bell is writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters. [...]

Madeleine did not want to go to the poetry festival in July, because no one else’s mother forces children to go to poetry festivals. She lowered her hat down over her forehead, leaving only a glower visible. No one. Else. She wanted to know why. Not a promising conversation in which to explore the ineffable [...]

  I first met Seamus Heaney in the pages of Beowulf, his 2001 translation that was both bestselling and award-winning. (Who would have thought that Beowulf – Beowulf! – could be a bestseller? I’m still waiting for the YouTube version of The Epic of Gilgamesh to go viral.) I hadn’t read Beowulf since college, and [...]

Now Moss has published what must stand as a testament to his career as a poet

Duggan has done something wonderful here with this retelling of an old, old story. He’s given it a modern sensibility while remaining true to its mythological origins.