But first we ask a very basic question: What is poetry, anyway? There’s no simple answer, as our columnist Elisa Gabbert explains in an essay that probes and celebrates that very ambiguity.

By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a definition this ambiguous ... “He says the simple things that clever people don’t ...

My definition of a poet is a person who has poems published after critical review by an independent publisher. Unfortunately, this produces the question: what is a poem? The Bristol Polygon poets ...