During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

Lorna Crozier’s The Wrong Cat is classic Crozier: lyric poems that often focus on love and nature. The book has four parts, each beginning with a cat poem. The first one sets the tone: “a cat defies / ...