In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

A poem found in an old desk at the Barnstable transfer station turned up a story that crosses time and distance. Was it fated ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

This exquisite dual-language edition of Gil de Biedma’s selected poems reveals the voice of a preeminent poet of mid-20th-century Spain. Gil de Biedma (1929–1990), a closeted gay man and left ...

Finland Confronts Its WWII History "If You Only Knew How Many Jews I Have Shot" Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures ... Linda was their only surviving child, born in 1940, after the Oppens had endured ...

These 6 poems capture the essence of unrequited love. Share them with that special someone who doesn't feel the same way, but ...

Not only had I been given a title far greater ... That idea was obliterated. I knew from a life in news that if you told your own story, it would, to some degree, continue to belong to you ...