NPR's Night Before Christmas in 2020 Parody. The poem was rewritten and shared on NPR with a modern spin. Here, Santa Claus acknowledges the stressors many faced throughout 2020 from job loss and ...

What if 2020 is the year we’ve been waiting for?” the poem by writer Leslie Dwight begins. “A year so uncomfortable, so painful, so scary, so raw — that it finally forces us to grow.” ...

April is National Poetry Month.And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it's worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door ...

If ever there was a collection of poems that speak to this moment it is “Ledger,” the latest book of poetry by Mill Valley’s Jane Hirshfield.

Sept. 14, 2020; RUNAWAY New Poems By Jorie Graham. Let’s try an experiment. Let’s imagine that you have never heard of Jorie Graham. You have never encountered a line of her verse.

"Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems," a new anthology edited by Margaret Rozga and Angela C. Trudell Vasquez, includes work by the eight people who have been Wisconsin poet laureate: the ...

There is no doubt that the publication of Derek Mahon's The Poems (1961-2020) (Gallery Press, 536pp, €22.50pb/€35hb) is a major occasion in Irish literature. Bringing together, in their final ...

The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit. By Gregory Cowles Gregory Cowles is a senior editor at the Book Review, where he has also been ...

A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human enterprise. He discusses writing humorous poetry and his new book, “Collected Poems 2005-2020." And he shares stories from being a ...