What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Thursday will be a National Day of Mourning. And we should be mourning. Not the death of Jimmy Carter at 100, but that his ...

Help Me’ is a hybrid track which shows off the best of both sides of Joni Mitchell at once. Read more about the story behind the song here.

Scientific Marvel is a poetry book by Chimwemwe Undi. (House of Anansi Press, Imalka Nilmalgoda) Scientific Marvel is a poetry collection that looks into the history of and current life in Winnipeg.

There are more than 90 poems, most of them originals but a few were written by family members and favorite authors. Several ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...

Nevertheless, there are respects in which Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is unusual. One is the near-unanimity with which Russia’s best writers have spoken out against it. Just as Hitler’s invasion of ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem ...

is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing.