Houston, who started writing poetry on the spot in 2005, had invited other poets to come write poetry with him before, but Suskin was the first one who ever showed up.

Free verse and narrative poems can sometimes seem similar, but they are not the same. One key difference is that narrative poems often include some poetic devices such as rhyming, rhythm (by ...

What became my poem is a collection of songs about the instruments that make up the whole, the drums, the trombone, the clarinet, etc. When they play together, as Cole Porter pointed out, "Now You Has ...

LITTLE POEMS (Everyman’s Library, $18), a new anthology edited by Michael Hennessy, provides a history of short poems since antiquity, from Sappho to Ocean Vuong, a lovely pocket-size volume ...