Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

In the book you compare your marriage to being in a cult. I think I wrote down the hallmarks of a cult. There are certain key signs that you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s a cult.’ ...

In “A Marriage at Sea,” the journalist Sophie Elmhirst’s elegant and propulsive nonfiction debut about a married couple cast adrift for months on a raft, this tension is on full display.

What was significant about “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a 1773 collection by Phillis Wheatley? It’s thought to be the first book published by a woman in America.