Why is everyone transgender all of a sudden, I can hear the voices asking. Voices of people I know, from places I grew up, or even where I live now. Are they “transitioning” just to be difficult, to ...

On September 3, in a rolling, lush alpine grassland, a string of moving poems composed by little poets living in the mountainous areas made a magnificent "Great Wall of Poetry". For thousands of years ...

In recognition of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, YaleNews recently met with David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, to talk about some of the most noted poets of that period ...

When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...

Robert Gray, one of Australia’s greatest poets, has died. He was regarded as an outstanding landscape poet and, alongside Les ...

The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with poet Megan Falley.

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. National Poetry Month is here! We’ll be celebrating and sharing all things verse throughout April with poets from across Southern ...

Little kids grow up loving rhyming text in picture books, and you can nurture their taste for lyrical lit as they get older with entertaining poetry collections and novels in verse. Our list offers a ...

A few years ago, in 2011, in an article for the National Review titled “The Right Kind of Tyrant,” the comedy writer Rob Long pointed out that in the world of business, it’s easy to find bosses who ...

Little kids grow up loving rhyming text in picture books, and you can nurture their taste for lyrical lit as they get older with entertaining poetry collections and novels in verse. Our list offers a ...