Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

Connections between Scotland and Jamaica will be celebrated in a new collaboration at the Scottish Poetry Library. The ...

Wheatley’s work has been probed and scrutinized, both during her short life and after her death. But despite that, her verse ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

Shukla’s literary career spanned more than five decades, during which he produced poetry, short stories, novels and essays ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

The essay situates Kunjana Parashar within the evolving cultural lineage of the “Bombay Poet,” tracing continuities from ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

“The enormous power of reticence,” Octavio Paz wrote in 1977, “is the great lesson of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop.” Many critics have echoed his praise since her death in 1979. “Bishop wrote ...