LONDON — What does poetry look like? It usually makes shapes on a page. Often these shapes are regulated — so many beats to a line. It often divides itself up into relatively small and boxy visual ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In celebration of National Poetry Month, here is a list of seven poems written by ...

In the month of April, we celebrated poetry. National Poetry Month was first established in April 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. Beautiful and moving poetry continues to be created each year, ...

In 2005, at the age of 24, William Horsted had his first poem published, in The Spectator. He still has a copy of the ...

Poets write in rhyme, muse in metered form or cause us to gasp at perceptions that seem far larger than the mere words from which they're shaped. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once defined poetry as a ...

The new and emerging genre of poetry, Milk and Honey, is the repackaged poetry of teenage love affairs, where “forever” means “never” and “we’re over” means “I’ll see you next week.” It is short and ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...