Kristie Frederick Daugherty is celebrating National Poetry Month in April by partnering with Swift Alert to connect Swifties to poetry.

The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

The news of her death at the age of 95 on March 6, 2025, represents another epic loss to the literary community in Nigeria, ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Maria Shriver gets candid about her difficult divorce, struggles with self-worth and more in her new poetry book, ‘I Am Maria' ...

At 90, the master poet-lyricist Gulzar’s legacy is etched in history. I first listened to Gulzar’s poetry in an audio ...

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

The best-written poems capture emotions, experiences, or images using a lyrical language. But what exactly is a poem, how is it different from prose, and how should we approach it?

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét’s John Brown’s Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long ... graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became ...