Christian Wiman Eight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright...

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry 1948-1994 offers a comprehensive and timely evaluation of the body of work of one of our most valuable poets in any language....

Author: Sharon Creech "I guess it doeslook like a poemwhen you see ittyped uplike that."Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels...

Editor: Patricia Wayant Starting on the day she is born, a granddaughter brings immeasurable joy into a grandparent's life. She is a miracle in the making, and while there is...

Susan Gaber Many first encounters with great poems could be made even more satisfying and memorable if children could add their own colors to the lyrics. In this handsome coloring...

Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye A collection of poetry and artistic works by people from the Middle East invites readers to explore a mosaic of culture, tradition, and common human...

Edited by John Martin The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing,...

Samih Al-Qasim, Adinis, Mahmud Darwish Since pre-Islamic days, poetry has been the mass art form of the Arabic language. In modern times poets in the region have had a greater...

Saigyo Translated by Burton Wwatson Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form,...

Rumi Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is considered by most to be the greatest of the Sufi mystical poets and one of the most highly regarded saints from any tradition. January 1,...

Edward Snow For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic ), to bring into English...

Edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair From the reviews: "This is a great anthology of modern poetry, in the sense that it is absolutely massive (almost 2,000 pages!), and...