Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Alex Dimitrov, in his ...

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

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles ... perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem.

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

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.

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Christmas poems to put you in a festive mood Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, ...

The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...

The winners of the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 were announced during the Deptford Literature Festival on Saturday, 29th March.

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

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...