Poetry is having a moment — not that the art form hasn't resonated through the centuries with work from greats including William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and others.

Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Last month I began in this space a 12-part, month-to-month series introducing poems from the Renaissance to the 21st century as a way to highlight the historic conversation that exists among poets ...

Decades after female poets of the '60s and '70s gained attention and acclaim, feminist poetry is having a moment again -- particularly for women of color. The latest wave began to form before the last ...

Digital tools and platforms are driving young, hip readers and writers of poetry in ever increasing numbers to practice and appreciate the ancient art. Here's a round up of four to watch. The ...

Now more than ever, youth are using poetry to make sense of the world around them, just as Young advised. In today’s renaissance, Black voices should be at the forefront. After centuries of ...

Born April 19, 1931, in New Haven, Connecticut, Roche received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1953 and his Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1958. He started as a research associate ...

As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never goes out of style. The gift of verse may carry extra cachet this Valentine’s Day, on the heels of Taylor Swift’s announcement ...