The essays in “Watch Your Language” are in close conversation with the poems in “So to Speak,” letting Hayes play with form and ideas. By Elisa Gabbert “Do questions or answers create history?” ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

For a quarter of a century, Open Books: A Poetry Emporium operated out of the ground floor of a home in Wallingford. The space had been a hub for all the many spokes of the Seattle poetry community — ...