Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Elisa New Source: Modern Philology 'Celebrated teachers as well as critics, Bendixen and Burt position themselves as knowledgeable enthusiasts, not as kingmakers or gatekeepers, in order to bring to ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000 ... and his own poem “Mother.” The poet joins Kevin ...

The phrase was “a reminder that I was living right now, breathing in the woods,” she wrote in the introduction to a new anthology, “that there was life around me … and I was part of it; I was nature ...

The heart will bind them. in watercolour, pastel, brush and black ink: a window to be realized with patient order. For now, though, the shape of this one piece.

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

Eat the World: a Collection of Poems by Marina Diamandis' is out now ... It's the ending step into moving into this new chapter as this new version of myself. It's the end of a very difficult ...

Originally written in Punjabi, this translation is one of 338 works that feature in Subramaniam’s new anthology of devotional poetry by women, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in ...

Netanyahu may dream of bringing about a new regional order in the Middle East. But regional chaos — with the all the dangers that it brings — seems a more likely outcome.

THE AVBOB Poetry Project invites aspiring poets to rise to the challenge and share their best words of hope and resilience in a new competition theme: New Beginnings. The theme is a new category ...