A short post at Stick Poet Super Hero led me to this story written by a woman living in the midst of the bombings in Beirut. Headlined Bombs, Rubble and Poets, it is written in prosaic, matter-of-fact language that blunts the impact of the world it presents – which makes it all the more horrifying [...]

Clive Matson once described himself as a journeyman poet – not an accomplished master of the art of poetry, but one who has learned the basics and is polishing his craft to perfection. His book, Let the Crazy Child Write, is more than just another writing book. It is, all at the same time, [...]

A poet”s bookshelf can never hold enough volumes of other people”s poetry. Whether those volumes are anthologies, collected poems of well-known poets, or hand-printed chapbooks by local poets from your favorite coffee house open mike, reading the works of others is one of the surest ways to keep your own poetic voice strong. This month [...]

One of the things that many of our past poets laureate have shared – not only among themselves but with the poets laureate of numerous states, cities and other nations – is an abiding passion for opening the world of poetry to children. Billy Collins created Poetry 180 to share a new poem every day [...]

What else would we suggest Fourth of July week but a book of patriotic poems and speeches? Some of the most stirring, emotional American poetry of the last centuries has been written about the love of country, and most of those poems are included in 101 Patriotic Poems Songs and Speeches from McGraw Hill. From [...]