By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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 ...

The winners of the second annual International Space Art and Poetry Contest were chosen out of 2,700 entries from 35 ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

Poetry is about perspective; each reader or writer has a separate interpretation. Each person on Earth has an individual story, and it’s made up of several chapters that others will never experience ...

Cracking the Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might be the hardest puzzle in the game. Though many of the treasure maps are tough to work out, at least they have lots of details to go on.