Poet and professor Matthew Zapruder (@matthewzapruder) says that the way that poetry is taught often gets in the way of enjoying and understanding it. He writes about ways to look at poetry anew in ...

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 ...

This year’s National Poetry Day has the theme of Freedom. Among the events inspired by it is a reading - at Glasgow’s flourishing poetry club, St Mungo’s Mirrorball - devoted to modern Russian poets ...