These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

A reader shares what a poem Abby printed years ago still means to her.

how everything was still & slow & i owed u everything even when i could only find u in certain lines of siken poems the sun's ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections ...

For this Poetry Project, we asked Robin Coste Lewis ... Which is to say: Decide. *** More than anything, I am afraid of—, I am ashamed of—. This numbness. I mourn. I did not do enough to right our ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

I Met My Younger Self For Coffee is a poem by Jennae Cecelia that inspired a TikTok trend in February 2025. Cecelia released the poem as a video on her TikTok page, @jennaececelia, early that month ...

“I am going nowhere,” Hizzoner said during morning remarks at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens Village. “I have a mission to finish, the mission that God put me on many years ago ...

For Dickinson, this is the internal quarrel that generates the most poetry. Heaven holds no interest for the speaker, because the beloved is more absorbing than God. But with the introduction of ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the ...