Vincent Spina’s follow-up collection to “Outer Borough” (Pecan Grove Press, 2008) offers a series of variations on the idea of dialogue, which he laid out simply in that earlier book: “So essentially ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it. Isabella Cotier By A.O.

Poem of the Day: ‘A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body’ In a series of exchanges, long stanzas of rhymed tetrameter couplets, the Soul and the Body grouse and gripe like a married couple not ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...