The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas. By Elisa Gabbert “Do questions or answers create history?” ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Best Australian Poems 2017 Ed., Sarah Holland-Batt Black Inc., $24.99. Black Inc.'s annual Best Australian anthologies have been ...

I rarely admit to writing poetry when talking to people I’ve just met. Asked what I do for a living during a night out with my wife, I sometimes default to ‘freelance writer,’ or more often than not, ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...

When I was 16 I visited the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany and confronted a horror I had up to then never imagined. This was in 1964, at a time when accounts of the Holocaust were not ...