Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

your fingers to a retaining wall. Every soul must be accounted for. Even the ladies, if for some reason you don’t want to mention their names. Remember, it’s always a good idea to go to Israel. But ...

UC Berkeley literature professor Jesse Nathan explores why poetry endures in "One Question: Short Conversations with Poets," ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. By Dwight Garner SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY, by Percival Everett THE BOOK ...

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” – W.H. Auden Several years ago, when I was teaching creative writing to high school students in the Writers in ...

If “a grain of poetry suffices to season a century," as the poet José Martí once wrote, then what would a bit of poetry do for the average student and the few years we spend in college? I write poetry ...