Gather round, readers, and I shall tell you a tale of childhood, chaos and candy. Of a book that revisits the wonder and whimsy of youth. A tale of ferocious 5-year olds, grumpy geezers and terrible ...

Now that the weather is warming, it’s time for the epic-length poems to be found, ‘Cause it’s National Poetry Month, just as sure as there’s piled-up snow on the ground. It’s nice out! It’s raining!

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s epic poem “Algarabía” follows the journey of its protagonist, Cenex, on the Isle of Algarabía, a fantastical projection of Puerto Rico, referred to in the poem as ELA ...

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying (out July 7), further illuminates the world Orlam brought to the page. Originally Harvey planned a theater piece to expand upon the work, but these ...

Sonawane says, poetry unlike prose, is a durable vessel for truth. “A novel has a relatively short life,” he says with the ...

For PJ Harvey, words, music and images all come from the same creative wellspring. P J HARVEY: In the early stages of writing a song, I very often see it in images and colors. And if I'm a bit stuck ...

Jon Stone is an editor at Sidekick Books. Poetry isn’t a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents. That, or ...