This week, the magazine published Stephen Dunn’s staunchly amusing poem “Testimony.” I spoke with Dunn about the poem and his writing process in keener detail. The speaker’s turn of phrase in ...

I put a few queries to Sophie Cabot Black, author of this week’s poem “Somewhere in New Jersey is the Center.” I’m fascinated by the way you manage to invoke the infamous Jersey turnpike with ...

Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. As one of the UK's leading poetry imprints, it has published more than 300 poets and boasts of having more new, and women, poets in ...

"Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce," wrote Donne, seeming to confirm the consolatory role of regular metre, only to reveal, later in the poem, how writing about grief had immortalised his ...

As a young mother, poet Kim Garcia stayed in a Benedictine Monastery, where she was exposed to the peaceful solitude and firm routine of monastic life. She lived the way the monks did—simply: rising ...

When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash of panic - oh, no! Not smart enough. Such a dunce. My ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- An Ohio poet says she cannot answer questions about her own poems on recent STAAR tests administered to middle schoolers in Texas. Two of Sara Holbrook's poems were published in the ...

In the early 20th century, the composer Charles Ives produced a piece of program music titled “The Unanswered Question,” in which a plaintive, solo trumpet repeatedly poses “the perennial question of ...