This deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives examines the importance of poetry and its diver

Poetry Matters explores poetry written by women from the United States and Canada, which documents the social and political turmoil of the early twenty-first ce

A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember

The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world twenty-first century readers.

In his groundbreaking essay "Can Poetry Matter?" (reprinted here), Dana Gioia suggested that many types of poetry, assumed by some readers to be marginal art, s