It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Known to Britons since the late 1970s, Reid (along with Craig Raine) inaugurated so-called ""Martian poetry,"" which sough outlandish, sometimes comic descriptions of ordinary things and events. Reid ...

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