From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

The only book Martin Bell published in his lifetime was his Collected Poems, a hardback between mustard-coloured paper covers with a wood engraving showing a contemplative puritan poet.

Longfellow’s poems remain a central pillar of the American story, reminding us of the civic values that he hoped would guide and uplift each of his readers. Perhaps the source of the light ...