For National Poetry Month, Blanco, who was selected as President Obama's inaugural poet in 2013, says we can harness this time of isolation for observation in the name of poetry.

“What do we grieve for/ when we leave a country?” inquires Boland (Domestic Violence), the Irish poet, anthologist, and Stanford professor, as she follows the lives of her mother and ...

Peachy Lee, a Lancaster Country Day School senior, will recite three poems during the Poetry Out Loud national competition in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The winner of the national competition ...

FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY: Poems, by Cynthia Dewi Oka. (TriQuarterly, paper, $17.) Across a range of playful styles, Oka’s third collection favors talkative lines that chew on themes of global ...

The fragrance of jasmine, honeysuckle and rose, fill up the air and tickle my nose. Sweet peas ramble over hedges, fences and dell, daisies, lilies and hollyhocks beckon, “Come, sit a spell ...

Alice Cary wrote for the leading magazines of the day, as well as producing novels for children, before her death from tuberculosis at fifty-one.

Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” and unify as she delivered a stirring ...

The poem, “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things,” is as slyly anti-sentimental as anything the man ever wrote. “Slyly,” because it has the some of the accoutrements of sentimental verse about ...

Boland also frequently explores the intersection of nation, poetry, and womanhood, as in “A Woman Without a Country,” where she suggests that women’s historical exclusion from politics and ...