With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing inspired.

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the inflammatory ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

An Invitation to Tesla's Colorado Springs," takes readers through a day in the life of the famous Serbian-American inventor ...

Rankine’s collection — which landed at No. 34 on our 100 Best Books of the 21st Century poll — mixes essayistic prose poems with free verse and ... all justly famous — and marvel at ...

I’ve seen this power in action while teaching the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems, “A Visit from St. Nicholas ... the 1920 poem “[little tree]” uses E.E. Cummings’s iconic free verse and repetition to convey a sense of innocence ...

The free verse poems in the final section explores the ethical ambiguities of the genre. Witty, excoriating, formally ingenious, ISDAL marks the arrival of a thrilling new talent in contemporary ...

Parents need to know that Love That Dog by Sharon Creech is told in the form of a boy's free-verse journal entries. The boy, Jack, expresses his feelings on all sorts of things, but especially about ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...