There are 16 million posts that appear under the “ Coffee with My Younger Self” page on TikTok as of Friday, with many users ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Aciman only lived in Rome for a year; new adventures awaited in (where else?) the Bronx. With help from relatives, he applied ...

What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne ...

“She is no longer me and I am no longer her / but she stares back at me when I look in the mirror / searching for something she hopes to recover.” Many of the poems here, newly translated from ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

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 ...

Yet can I really escape it? How much of my creative life is now affected by it, how many poems has the insidious smog crept its way into? Too many. When I come around, through the train window ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... I recognized a Heidegger reference: “I am,/in these moments, at the center of the world worlding.” ...