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

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

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

The Seated Woman (Anansi, 72 pages, $23), by Clémence Dumas-Côté and translated by E. S. Taillon, uses a dialogue between the Seated Woman and the Poems to create a collection at once expansive and ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Songs, images, poems; a puzzling of words full of memory and mystery. I have written poetry since I was about 11. I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about ...

Silence delineates the formal borders of the poem, and the formal arrangement ... They are not spaces where images are created, but where images are transformed from pre-existing vocabularies ...

Memories are preserved in clear images, some more than eighty years old ... He toasts the joys of living with a poem as he does in equal delight with a glass of good rum.

Sanai's poem delicately captures the joy of ... China, as an ideal land in Iranian mythology, has crafted a positive and captivating image, symbolized by "ideal love", its famous musk, and ...

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we take a deep dive into the trends that brought a renewed popularity to this ...