Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

For the first time, English-language readers can engage with the work of Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a distinctive voice among South Africa’s younger generation of Afrikaans poets.

Waiting for her wandering friends. She sure has stood the test. Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson.

NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Matwaala, the pioneering South Asian diaspora poetry collective, is celebrating its 10th anniversary ...

See how one homesick scholar put together a massive compendium of verse by former emperors, modern-day activists, soldiers, sages and Nobel winners.

On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 ...

Her poem has been republished below with permission: If I am ever lost, or if I am ever weak, take me where it’s rugged, take me where it’s steep. If I need reminding, or ever need some space, let me ...

I kept reading poetry, but for the last, I don’t know, 25 or 30 years, I’ve been very much a casual reader of poetry—not someone professionally invested in it, not someone who specializes in it.

By itself, a poem can’t fix injustice, prevent violence, or erase mistakes we’ve made. But it can “hold you and scold you at the same time,” Daughtry writes; it can “make you float . . . introduce you ...

Here are six more poems that deal in different ways with giant monsters: 1. Beowulf Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated ...

The man got really quiet and said he’d need to read the poem again, but that he had a good feeling about it. Eventually, he came back with “a tear in his eye” to thank Bernthal. It was perhaps ...

Please stop. Blank Space If you opened Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, and asked it to write a poem about anti-wokeness like an angsty middle schooler, you'd likely still get something better than ...