There are no more bedtime stories for my son. We’ve never done the traditional ‘read a book before bed’ thing. He’s always requested made-up stories involving whichever character caught his ...

“Bedtime Stories: Poems” by Steve Langan; Littoral Books, Portland, Maine, 2024; 104 pages, paperback, $20. I have a feeling that many of the poems in Steve Langan’s new collection, “Bedtime Stories,” ...

[Poetry] hath been the ... first nurse, whose milk by little and little enabled them to feed afterwards of tougher knowledges.—Sir Philip Sidney, “A Defence of Poetry” (1595) When at age 4 my daughter ...

I have many opportunities to interact with readers of poetry when I'm teaching or giving presentations, talks or readings. I often like to ask which poets people enjoy re-reading. Robert Frost is a ...