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

Linda Stansberry has wanted to be a writer since she was 7 years old. “I have never wanted to be anything else,” said Stansberry, who grew up in Honeydew and has resided in Humboldt County most of her ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

Evan Wang, a senior at Upper Merion High School, wants to see young people engage with poetry off the page and in everyday ...

Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

The recent controversy over artist Anita Dube’s unauthorised use of an anti-establishment poem by Aamir Aziz reveals the ...

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

Only fragments remain of the work of Sappho ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

I’ll admit I came to “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $50) with some trepidation. James Atlas’ masterful biography “Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an ...

Simon Tay’s pragmatic call: You have only the city you are born ... whose simple poems in his second collection Short Tongue (2023) belie deep reservoirs of irony, wit and social commentary.

This is a short poem with immeasurable ... of his refusal to let this handicap ruin his life, the full poem says in bold words that you, and only you, are in charge of your destiny.