My mother’s views back then are now standard. In ancient times, poetry was part of ritual, not only to placate the gods but as to pass history along. Meter and rhyme made it easy to learn.

Robert Hass’s “A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry” is full of pithy, eloquently expressed sentiments, which urge you to reread them in order to fully absorb ...

In honor of April being National Poetry Month, Princeton Professor of Poetry Lynn Melnick talks poetry — from reading and writing, to falling in love with the art form.