Poetry is everywhere, especially in places you would least expect it to be. Even the most mundane texts — be it a news article or street advertising — have poetry within them. Such is the sentiment ...

Q Do you happen to know the name of the Jimmy Stewart poem that appeared in Reader’s Digest about his old dog who died? It would be comforting to read it again since we’re about to lose our ...

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...

In this sound portrait, we meet poet BJ Love. He talks about finding inspiration in small moments of everyday life, being married to another poet and how poetry is like a time machine. He reads his ...

I don’t know much for certain, but I can tell you this: we humans don’t just love our dogs; we love talking about our dogs. Of dogs, most of us have known a few, lost a few, found a few. Maybe even ...

Anglofiles are sure to recall their college-lit classes and experience warm memories reading “The Dog in British Poetry” (Chronicle, 352 pages, $14.95), an elegant, whimsical anthology of writings ...

Grace Cavalieri, who lives in Washington, D.C., has performed a great service for American poetry over the past forty years with her public radio show, “The Poet and the Poem.” She’s also a playwright ...