Michael Lind, a journalist, poet, and novelist, skewers the current state of American poetry and places the blame squarely at the feet of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and American academics who have warped ...

What contemporary American education needs most, and what should replace its racialized and politicized language arts programs, is a poetry-rich curriculum. In a fantastic recent article, Mathew ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite the ubiquity of the usage, it was not always so: John Dryden and Alexander Pope did not speak of a poet’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

Micheal O’Siadhail’s Desire and Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Dear Dante are collections designed and erected meticulously in an ancient style that an avid reader is unlikely to see in much contemporary ...

So conscious are we nowadays of the extraordinary influence upon postmodern American poetry of William Carlos Williams—the second and concluding volume of whose collected poems has now been ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate as the experience of early motherhood and the evanescence of dreams, died ...