Poet Traci Brimhall reflected on what it means to love in a reading of her poetry, some of which came from her recently ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

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Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river, and through the wood— Oh, how the ...

In this week’s poem, “Slack Tide,” Matthew Bernier meditates on finding and holding an infinitesimal moment of stillness. I ...

Chasing rodents around a small one-bedroom apartment, reflecting in one’s daily three-hour-long shower and “Behind These ...

Dickinson, arguably the greatest nature poet (and religious poet and love poet) of the American 19th century, didn’t just ...

The inaugural reading of the 2025-2026 season of Chapter and Verse on Friday, Oct. 17 will feature two popular Massachusetts poets followed—for the first time ever—by an open mic where people from the ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott You can hear a reading of this poem ...

In this week’s poem, “Monday Night Choir Boi,” Jae Casella tells of singing in the “Lavender Choir” with several generations of queer, trans and nonbinary singers.