Ekphrasis – the practice of describing and finding meaning within a work of art – is one of the cornerstones of contemporary poetry. Rare is the collection that doesn’t have at least one poem that ...

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry columns ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...