We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...

“Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach.” Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry, now the oldest monthly ...

Thom Tammaro was 14 when he discovered Bob Dylan. Sitting on his bed listening to Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” he’d move the needle to play “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” and “Desolation Row” over ...

Founded in the flower of modernism, important (and importantly unpartisan) during the clash of styles and schools in the 1960s, and resurgent (as well as well-funded) today, the magazine out of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, ...

Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Read an ...