By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

For many of us, the run-up to Valentine's Day is spent seeking out the least cringe-worthy card in the shop to gift to our significant other, and sho ...

Both poets explore love as a transformative and omnipotent force, delving into its complexities and transcendence. Donne ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki ...

For the 60th anniversary of the release of "A Love Supreme" the Village Voice asked dozens of sax players to muse on the jazz masterpiece.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

If the American experience had a cinematic poet, it was him. The news that Lynch had left us was shocking only because it seemed that he’d be here with us forever.