Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

The idea that people should be able to choose their own communities––instead of being stuck where they are born––is a distinctly American innovation, and in many ways the foundation for the country’s ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

A recently discovered poem, written in 1918 and published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

It’s about what it means to be a young person in a generation that is going to end, and is currently changing the world,” the lauded poet said of her new book.