So, to anyone who feels scared of poetry: take a class—knowingly or unknowingly—based in verse and the whole world of poetry ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of "Father's Day" and ...

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

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