William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Wednesday amid immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

In the evolving landscape of Indian English poetry, where romantic lyricism, political commentary, and confessional ...

Books and poems have shaped ideas, values, and emotions for centuries. Some characters stay alive long after the last page ...

Twice a week, I meet with two elderly men to read poems out loud. The poems are ancient, even older than us. They’re usually ...

In “The Flower Bearers,” Rachel Eliza Griffiths addresses her starry, tragedy-marred marriage but also a life steeped in art, ...

It’s been one of those stretches where the character barely gets to exhale. This week, Daphnee Duplaix stepped outside the ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

In 1986 the first Poems on the Underground appeared in Tube carriages, and both commuters and visitors to London have been pondering their meaning ever since. Transport for London will be marking the ...

The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...