T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month. It also happens to be National Poetry Month. Many schoolchildren will be admonished to pay attention to poetry these next few weeks - read, analyze, ...

All children are natural poets, but “unfortunately, our poetry instincts often get beaten out of us by bad education and also by that harrowing phenomenon called adolescence,” says Billy Collins, in ...

There used to be a thing called a "poet's poet." It meant a poet whom other poets took special pleasure in reading, above and beyond general readers of poetry (back when there were some). The term has ...

To welcome National Poetry Month, we take a listen to former Poet Laureate Billy Collins read his poem, "Introduction to Poetry." Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem 'Introduction to ...

Poems from Billy Collins, Patricia Smith and Marc J. Straus. In a new collection of poems, Billy Collins reiterates many of his usual themes with a healthy dose of his usual panache — and performs one ...