Our poetry editor reflects on the 2010 crop.

A native of the city, Louise Gluck visits the countryside in her latest collection of poems.

W. S. Merwin writes about darkness, but also our fugitive but astonishing experiences of light.

A deep bow to the Foley Poetry entrants

Some poetry for the soul

A look back at America's 2008 poetry contest

Edward Hirsch president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun-dation has contributed mightily to our appreciation of poetry How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry 1999 discourses on all the aspects of poetry drawing widely on what the poets themselves have had to say about it Po

The Foley Poetry contest approaches, with entries accepted between Jan. 1 and March 31. I know how the outpouring of poems will eventually seem like what Robert Frost describes in After Apple Pickingthe rumbling sound of load on load of apples coming in. (The picker admits he is overtired of the