Poets Online - the blog

In a PBS interview for a new collection of Billy Collins' poems about dogs, it is said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of ...

We are starting off 2026 with a call for submissions that emerged while I was trying to find a poem that I believed was titled "Blue H...

Our final post for 2025 looks at the statistics for the posts on this blog.  Our top-performing social media post of the year was on Facebo...

A Winter Solstice at Stonehenge Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year, which is a profound...

Here's a poetic oddity. Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats is a collection of haiku written by comedians. T...