Sometimes a poem just strikes a precise moment. “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris, feels utterly necessary for our time — a poem celebrating minor, automatic graciousness within a ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

Hiring our youth poetry ambassadors to guest-write my column is one such platform. This month, Halima Ibrahim offers encouragement to other writers by sharing how she finally found a language that ...

Two books by respected poets have recently come to us from new and ”small” publishers. John Ciardi`s ”Selected Poems,” handsomely made, is from the new University of Arkansas Press ($17.95 ...

How does this relate to writing poetry? Well, jump rope rhymes are a good example of rhythm, meter, and beat. What’s more, small sections of poetry are measured in feet, and just watch those ...

With the preponderance of poetry in the Pioneer Valley from college and university programs to publishers to small-town poetry readings and events, it seems many people must be feeling as if the ...

The journey of the successful Indian small press for English poetry is especially remarkable as most poetry presses are ephemeral Poetrywala, India’s premier small press for English-language ...