The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are ...

On March 10, 2025, the Wisconsin Book Festival hosted the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Department’s six masters ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

When I discovered incense, in the wilds of the Venice Beach Boardwalk, as a young man in, probably, the late eighties, I didn ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

The Mississippi Arts Commission has announced winners in the 2025 Mississippi Poetry Out Loud® competition. Saabria Prater, a ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Again, the two sessions are known for policy, not poetry. But some Jilin officials deployed ...