Over dinner, a friend once asked me a shocking question. What is poetry anyway? Then, even worse, What makes a poem great? He thought I should know, since I presumed to introduce poetry programs on ...

When Olivia Vella was asked to explore a topic she was passionate about for her seventh grade writing final, she turned to insecurities. Her poem, which explores the question, "Why am I not good ...

A recent and generous review of a volume of my new and selected poems, The Other Side of Daylight, notes that its title echoes Rainer Maria Rilke’s writing of a feeling “that he had reached the other ...