The seasons of India are full of poetic detail, with each season having its own set of colors, scents, and emotional overtones. While there are well-known names for the seasons themselves, there are ...

A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm ...

Snoop Dogg's daughter Cori Broadus and her fiancé Wayne 'Duece' Polk bid a final farewell to their baby girl, less than a ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...

Tam O'Shanter is a rip-roaring tale of witches and alcohol, but it has hidden depths. On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after the poem was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be ...

An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? Only the ...

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

The Carl Sandburg poem “Chicago” has been a beloved local anthem for more than a century. The 1914 poem, which coined the phrase “City of Big Shoulders,” has inspired prideful political speeches, ...

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Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...

Hilda Doolittle, known as HD, was a prominent modernist poet of the early 20th century. Her 1914 poem "Oread" is a key example of Imagist poetry, which uses concise, sensory language. The poem is ...