Leonard Cohen's songs are poems, but not every poem he wrote became a song. These are a mix of some of his definitive works that define Cohen as a wordsmith.

Looking for strange, alien and misunderstood things in the world around us can help find the wonder that inspires poetry, ...

You can’t escape a certain sound. You’ll hear the click-clack of typewriter keys and the sputter of a knob turning the rubber ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith ...

Coleen revealed to campmates that the Man United and England legend is a budding poet and confirmed he was penning a new one ...

My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he had evidence to the contrary: a love poem Kasubhai wrote more than 30 years ago as a law school student, called “Sensualized Property Theory.” And then, to the horror ...

Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

Writing about huge monsters is one way of confronting that. Two different anthologies of monster poetry are published ... The epigraph to The Man-Moth explains that it was inspired by a misspellin ...

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from ...