William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

In her latest collection, the Vermont poet laureate muses on life, death and love, and the power of even mundane physical objects to sustain memories.

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Enid Osborn Chaucer's Books will host local poets Enid Osborn and Daniel Thomas for a reading of their latest works, 6 p.m.

National Poem in Your Pocket Day is Friday, April 29, and it’s the perfect day to dive into a good poetry book. Whether you’re on an emotional healing journey, or you want to escape to a world built ...

Breakout poet and mom Jessica Urlichs talks her new book and wows with her nuanced take on motherhood. Don't miss our ...

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

While Hagit Vardi has published five books of poetry in Israel, “She Wasn’t Damaged” is her first book of poems translated into English. Reading the more than 50 poems — in both Hebrew and English — ...

Poetry Has All My Pain and Love Through the Eyes of a Naive Village Boy, a two-part collection by Adetimilehin Inioluwa ...

For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...