These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

Their poems are ... the recent book bans targeting gay and trans literature, the McCarthy era revisited, or even the bonfires that consumed “decadent” books in Nazi Germany. Why are the ...

The new book is a collection of poetry. “I have always tried ... with songwriting because Leonard Cohen said to me, in 1966, ‘I don’t know why you’re not writing songs,’ ” she continued.

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The scenes flowering through songs, given as new though they’re old to me, old like ... “Tell us why you’re crying so we’ll understand!” Deborah Garrison is a book editor and poet.

An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry ... book-length and are sustained across many years of writing. Maybe this is why ...

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind ...

His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is forthcoming ... inside began banging on a window, telling me to move away. My legal knowledge isn’t why I didn’t move when I heard the window ...

She was one of five daughters (like me) and ... or “identity”), or of poetry by which we can demonstrate a grasp of innovative metre. But how and why do we reread classic books, when we ...