David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.

A poet whose translations of Horace and Virgil are revered, David Ferry won the National Book Award in 2012 for “Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations,” which includes “Lake Water,” and ...

Poet and translator David Ferry at his office in Brookline, Mass., in 2012. Mr. Ferry's son, the photojournalist Stephen Ferry, captured the portrait. (Stephen Ferry) By Harrison Smith.

Like Mill, David J. Daniels seeks the almost-overlooked but utterly salient detail, the almost-muttered-under-one’s-breath truths. But unlike Mill, Daniels has a notion of poetry that hovers somewhere ...

David Berman has died at 52. He was an accomplished poet, but it was his work with the indie-rock band Silver Jews that earned him revered cult status.

David J. Reedy III, 79 of Southampton, NJ (previously Easton, PA; originally Scranton, PA), passed peacefully at home on May 15, 2025 serenaded by his favorite poet-lyricist, Bob Dylan. He was the … ...

David Clewell, Missouri's poet laureate from 2010-2012, author of 10 collections of poetry and more than 50 other works that appeared in various publications, and a long-time professor of ...

David Biespiel, whose latest book of poems, "The Book of Men and Women," was just named one of the best books of 2009 by the Poetry Foundation, could be called the quintessential Portland poet.

On Independence Day, Colorado Matters' resident poet David J. Rothman wants you to contemplate the pursuit of happiness.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers a friend, Baltimore poet David Franks. Franks blurred the line between his private life and his public art: He did outrageous things and had a sense of humor ...