What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state poem of the ...

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...

Gramercy Books and the Jewish Community Center will host four award-winning poets on Thursday in celebration of National ...

matthews — who prefers to write his name in lowercase because he believes his name is insignificant compared to the message he has to give — doesn’t just read his poems; he treats them like theatrical ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

On Jan. 20, 2021, two weeks after the horrific attack on our Capitol by some of our fellow Americans, President Joe Biden was ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

It’s an entire other mode of communication. But once you become familiar, Tahat claimed, you can see for yourself what poetry can do. It’s a matter of letting your imagination take hold, which can be ...

of wild fire blazing through a forest up north. no words. You don’t turn away from the horror. I know you will stay where it’s unbearable.

I live by this saying, ‘It doesn’t matter how many times you fall, it only matters how many times you get up’. I’ve learned how resilient I am. I didn’t realize that I was this mentally tough. I’ve ...

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