Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, ... Irony refuses to be life-giving or world-creating.

Someday I will write a rant on the theft of sincere irony by the rightists, going on and on about their rip-off of the phrase “political correctness.” Just sayin! (As they say on Fox News .) ...

So, in a sense, sophistication involves taking a bit of a stand against oneself—which brings irony into the picture. And often enough, this very move brings the feelings in. Look at this radioactive ...

poetry picks ‘The irony of desire in boxes’: Six poems to remind us of life (and death) on Zoom during Covid-19 ‘A zoom screen is no mirror / and I hide self-view because / I am exhausted of ...

Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

Well, there's a reason we don't get irony, and it's not because we're daft. As explained by INSEAD professor Erin Meyer in her 2014 bestseller " The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible ...

Tracy K. Smith received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for "Life on Mars." Her memoir, "Ordinary Light," will be published next spring. Updated March 16, 2015, 1:41 PM Why are there so many ...