Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

The new and emerging genre of poetry, Milk and Honey, is the repackaged poetry of teenage love affairs, where “forever” means “never” and “we’re over” means “I’ll see you next week.” It is short and ...

Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite the ubiquity of the usage, it was not always so: John Dryden and Alexander Pope did not speak of a poet’s ...

For casual readers, poetry might be the last thing you’d pick up in your free time. If your memories of reading Grade 10 Shakespeare still haunt you, I’m here to help. In celebration of Black ...

THERE has been a real need for a definitive collection of modern poetry of the period since the World War, exemplifying recent work of established poets, the increase of associative imagery, the shift ...