Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Refrigerator, 1957,” by Thomas Lux, and her own poem “Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It.” The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian ...

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As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea ...