This year’s National Poetry Day has the theme of Freedom. Among the events inspired by it is a reading - at Glasgow’s flourishing poetry club, St Mungo’s Mirrorball - devoted to modern Russian poets ...

Poet Rita Dove explored her definition of a poem, song writing, and the significance of music in her life.

The close passing of the poetry critics Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler is a moment to recognize the end of an era. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Alan Thomas; Lilian Kemp / Radcliffe ...

I like Edna St. Vincent Millay's definition of it, where she begins one of her own sonnets by saying, "I will put chaos into fourteen lines." So tracing the history of this form through all its ...