Our columnist looks at what it all meant. By Elisa Gabbert I wonder if there has ever been more equivocation about the word “best” and its meaning outside of the front matter of “Best American Poetry” ...

Y]ou think you’re dying. But you’re not,” begins Ben Kassoy’s poem “The Funny Thing About a Panic Attack.” His one-man show of the same title, which ran at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the ...

Chasing rodents around a small one-bedroom apartment, reflecting in one’s daily three-hour-long shower and “Behind These Hazel Eyes” by Kelly Clarkson are all inspirations for humorous, accurate poems ...

Dickinson, arguably the greatest nature poet (and religious poet and love poet) of the American 19th century, didn’t just observe the flora and fauna around her. She treated them — birds and bugs, ...