The latest from Columbia poet Gabriel Fried explores thin places between expressions of gender, between faith and doubt.

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

Trump's executive orders aimed at education aren't about language as much as they are about shutting down other perspectives.

The 24th Poet Laureate of the United States – and the first of Hispanic origin – shares her experience as an ambassador of ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

One of the things I was most excited about for college was the opportunity to take courses on more specific subjects than I could in high school. Through eight semesters ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.