This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. What we gain by forgetting “Buying Shrimp at Bennetts Point,” a poem by Roey Leonardi ...

Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. — Carl Sandburg, "A Father to His Son" Most people can learn to do most things adequately. Ben Hogan believed ...

Reading is writing, writing is reading and it's a good idea not to judge yourself with what you read. Especially poetry for young people. These are things that have helped me throughout the years. I ...

If you're anything like me, poetry collections intimidate you more than any other type of book. I'm not sure where this poetry fear starts for many of us. Perhaps from school, where we're expected to ...