We feature a variety of informative articles on contemporary and historical poets. You can also browse our collection of poems-from haiku, sonnets, and villanelles to sestinas, pantoums, Twitter poems.When we first conceived of Take Your Poet to Work Day, I had no idea how complicated it would be to wrangle a herd of poets out the door and off to the job. And once we got going, it didn't get any easier. Eliot kept trying to take the wheel.Nancy Franson continues her experimental poetry dare, trying to work out the rhythm of a new dance partner. Ava Leavell Haymon was recently named Louisiana's poet laureate. Walter Bargen, a former poet laureate for Missouri, has some insights into what that means.