Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

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

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Grab this free printable Jelly Bean Prayer Poem. Great for gifting during Easter using the colors of the jelly bean colors ...

“Courage is about being an example of fearlessness and change for those who are underrepresented, demonstrating that you can ...

At the New Delhi World Book Fair 2025, six contemporary poets explore how words and visuals merge to reshape poetic expression.

The University of Wisconsin’s Creative Writing Department is one of the nation’s few fully funded programs in creative ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

For a while, I actually felt kind of embarrassed by this. I thought that somehow I was on a lower intellectual level than everyone else and maybe I just didn’t have that depth. Later on, when I got ...

Montana's poet laureate doesn't pull punches — on anything. But his unfiltered nature and commitment to appearing in the ...