In the 1950s and ’60s, the counterculture scene, the introduction of typewriters, and a new interest in typographic innovations all converged to form the concrete poetry movement. Visual poets like ...

IBM design researcher Meghan McGrath shares how working in literature–including a stint at a poetry journal–helped her better serve users. Meghan McGrath: On paper, it would look almost cartoonishly ...

Build a place to contain words, ideas, thoughts and emotions — not to mention chairs, tables, offices and 60,000 poetry books, chapbooks, periodicals, broadsides and audio- and videotapes, some of ...

What may be the only bookstore devoted entirely to poetry in Brooklyn — or possibly in all of New York City — officially opened in Dumbo Saturday. Berl’s Poetry Shop at 126a Front Street specializes ...

Until a few years ago, Canadian-Sudanese music artist and poet Mustafa went by the name Mustafa the Poet. Although he has shed his title from his alias, poetry is still very much coursing through his ...

Reviews of Brenda Coultas’s “The Writing of an Hour,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling” and Ryann Stevenson’s “Human Resources.” By Elisa Gabbert Some people believe that before we are born, we ...

Sandra McPherson is the acclaimed author of 21 books of poetry, including the National Book Award-nominated The Year of My Birth, and her latest, The 5150 Poems (Nine Mile Press). She is a retired ...

Design by Robert Frost (1936) conforms to the demanding sonnet strictures. It features an 8-6 internal structure which typically connotes a two-prong argument, the last two verses of the poem, the ...