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.

Devangana Dash, winner of 2025 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. She ...

What exactly constitutes a poem? To some contemporary writers, one might consider a shopping list of milk, eggs, oats and tea a form of poetry. Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the ...