Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is it about life's big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On ...

Once, in my youth, I took a graduate philosophy seminar I thought would be about law and justice: Instead we discussed the semantic implications of punctuation marks. After class, I found myself ...

As quaint and graceful as medieval guilds. Grouse feathers float away on the still lake. Summer and reeds; summer and partridge chicks. Then bees: eaters of honey till their death. The honey gatherers ...

When Rosemarie Dombrowski stood in front of her class and shared a poem about her son, who was diagnosed with autism and three congenital heart defects, it was not just a display of vulnerability with ...

CHRISTIAN WIMAN is a poet and editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. His most recent book of poems, Every Riven Thing, was published last fall by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Some existential glitch in ...

A world without poetry would be a dire thing indeed. From Dylan Thomas’s famous villanelle Do not go gentle into that good night to Shakespeare’s famous love sonnet parody, Sonnet 130, the forms of ...

Open Water was the first Canadian example of free verse in the domestic canon, and the phrase used by Canadian critics at the time, as reported in Canadian Poetry (vol. 12, 1983), that both Stringer’s ...