Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. From those decades, we have fewer than two poems a year, many, like most of his sculptures, unfinished. From his ...

To welcome National Poetry Month, we take a listen to former Poet Laureate Billy Collins read his poem, "Introduction to Poetry." Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem 'Introduction to ...

In 1852, the March and April issues of La Revue de Paris carried an essay by Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), “Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works.” This was the first version of Baudelaire’s preface to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...