Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, ...

My first show of 2025 is Gone Missing by The Civilians and Michael Friedman. Aysan Celik, an original Civilians member and ...

But love of baseball is not the reason this column celebrates Marianne Moore. She was a Big Leaguer of modernist poetry.

For example, the traditional New Year's ballad, Auld Lang Syne ... Burns was also a lover of scotch whisky, with many of his poems – such as Tam O'Shanter (1791) and John Barleycorn (1782) – praising ...

Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... poets across America read protest poetry, organising evenings of resistance. Carol Ann Duffy, then serving ...

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 ...

Focus Features has set a March 28 limited release for The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is set to have its world premiere at this month’s Sundance Film Festival. Pic follows Charles (Tim Key ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... and the elusive uncited allusion. Here’s an example, in a poem called “Nicholson Baker & I,” from Catherine ...