Why are so many poems in today’s magazines about sorrow and misery or freakish, even disturbing language or images? Where are the lust-for-life poems, the poems that crave adventure and new ...

Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.

Prof Erin McCarthy from the University of Galway talks about her ERC-funded project STEMMA and the value of curiosity-driven frontier research.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, here is a list of seven poems written by contemporary poets. These poems highlight themes such as sexuality, race and grief, proving poetry is not only ...

In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

1. Sometimes I see a poem in Slate or another magazine, and it doesn’t do a thing for me. Half of the time I can’t figure out what it means—what is that all about? Generalizing won’t do. We’d have to ...

Dan Chelotti’s poem “Grieving in the Modern World,” was published in his first book of poetry, “x,” published by McSweeney’s. Read the text of the poem below. We caught up with poet Dan Chelotti at ...

If you want to make Stephen Sondheim mad enough to swat you over the head with a rolled-up musical score, try this: Call him a poet. As Sondheim insists in interviews, essays and in the introduction ...

Poets frequently pay homage to nature — whether it be to the single sprouting cherry blossom or the blade of grass that bends toward the sun. Words, much like nature, glisten with the beauty and ...