From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

Tauba Weiss (left) sits with Jewish Family and Children's Services executive director Anita Friedman at a Yom HaShoah community commemoration in San Francisco in the 2010s. (Courtesy JFCS Holocaust ...

Most people can not imagine what being a prisoner of war is like. But if you pick up the book "Poems from a Prison Camp," you can rad some of the writings that American POWs from the Korean War have ...

Poems may focus on a range of topics reflective of Santa Barbara’s food ecosystem, such as farmer’s markets, vineyards, ranching, edible native plants, specialty local dishes, or culinary labor. The ...

A poemWe started on the black hand side or we started in the delivery room or we’d barely started. Barely old enough to feed ourselves, to locate love on the insides of rib cages, to know better ...

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.

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A bilingual collection of poetry by twentieth-century Palestinian poet and author Mahmoud Darwish containing his books "The Stranger's Bed," "A State of Siege," and "Don't Apologize for What You've ...