Cover Story

Celebrate the Season
The editors choose 10 great holiday poems from the archive, including a video of Mary Louise Parker reading Mark Strand's poem "Lines for Winter."

On Poets

You Can't Come Halfway Home From the Bar

After the Beats came the Russian River Poets. Before Kurt Cobain, there was Jeffrey Miller.

On Poetry

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Reading Guides

How To Read A Poem (and Fall in Love With Poetry)

Curious about poetry, but don't know where or how to begin? We've republished a how to guide by the respected poet Edward Hirsch. Its seventeen sections step you through the elements of poetry. Each section has plenty of links to example of poems in our archive to illustrate Hirsch's points.