If you ever find yourself in need of a poem, I've got great news for you: Dial-A-Poem is back! These days, the arts of all ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

London's Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters - Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London, started the Poems on the Underground project 40 years ago ...

One January afternoon in 1845, readers of the New York Evening Mirror picked up their paper to read these words: ...

There is no other poet in history who, though so identified with his own small and parochial part of the world, has expressed ...

Forging a path through modern anxiety, Lauren Auder's music argues for an intentional and joyous ego as the foundation for ...

Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Verb and fellow poet Ian McMillan, speaks with Michael Rosen, ahead of his new one-person show Getting Through It, a powerful, deeply personal, yet universally relatable ...

Arghavan Khosravi's "Rupture" (2025) will be exhibited as part of the Aldrich Contemporary’s inaugural decennial. (image courtesy Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art) For the first time in its 62-year ...

X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through “The Bedford Reader” and other textbooks and engaged ...

From The Head Hunter to Castle in the Sky, these are the most underrated masterpieces in all of fantasy cinema.

From Ae Fond Kiss to Coming Through the Rye, Burns songs are as powerful as ever for a new generation of performers on the BBC’s Burns Night celebration ...