Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Once Within a Time takes its title from the most recent film by Godfrey Reggio, the legendary experimental filmmaker who has long resided in Santa Fe.

April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick is a book of selected poetry from W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden is a 20th-century poet, born in England before immigrating to the United States in ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

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Why really good trombones sound the way they do, and the peculiar motion of creatures in the ocean, in this week’s dip into Nature’s archive. Global sea surface temperatures in 2023–24 ...

Two new studies in Nature report on how effector memory-like CD8 + T cells infiltrate inflamed tissues in various disease states and drive tissue-restricted complement activation via the release ...

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If they spot it—and there’ll often be one—then grappling with the rest of the poem becomes a lot easier. Imagine, for instance, that students were given Lawrence Dunbar’s incredibly moving poem ...