This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

William Wordsworth, a key figure of the Romantic movement, believed nature profoundly shaped human character and imagination.

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

Under the gathering sky of the longest night of the year, about 75 people gathered beneath the archway of the Santa Barbara ...

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 ...

The Daily News invited readers to submit stories and poems about Christmas traditions that are special to them.

Clement Clark Moore wrote a poem for his children in 1822, “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” also known to many as “The Night ...

This is a common trope, but Nolan can finally move past it in one of the oldest stories put to paper. In adapting The Odyssey ...

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”Nothing beside remains.The lone and level sands stretch far away.— Percy Bysshe ...