poetry

Poet laureates from across the country wrote about the upcoming year for Maclean’s. Here’s what they had to say about 2022.

Amanda Gorman—at 22, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history—delivered her poem at the U.S. Capitol

Abel mines his family’s painful story, exploring the impacts of residential schools and intergenerational trauma, in a new literary work of poetry, art and archival documents

Who knew Donald Trump was a poet? Scott Feschuk, that’s who. We present our latest curated collection of presidential poetry.

Human warmth and starry spiritual breadth resonate in the work of the Sunni Muslim mystic

Canada’s most richly rewarded poet proves her worth

For poet Damian Rogers no one combines the intimacy of poetry and arena rock’n’roll like Downie

Ben Lerner explores The Hatred of Poetry with the best, and worst, the genre has to offer

Out of fashion for centuries, poets have been patient. And sometimes it pays off.

After 11 years and $120,000 in research, Christian Bök has put words to DNA