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

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Bais Rivkah High School student Bryna Sudak won a schoolwide competition with a spoken-word poem called 'Flames,' explaining the Chassidic concept of faith in Hashem during pain. Watch her moving and ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

As the world marked World Poetry Day, a quiet unease settled among Arab poets, a sense that the currents of their art were shifting, perhaps drifting away from familiar shores. They spoke of a ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri clapped his hands in applause Wednesday after MP Wael Abou Faour of the Progressive Socialist Party rejected any normalization agreement between Lebanon and Israel. “The ...