Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Artist Shilpa Gupta on how borders divide but they also connect people, why points and moments of transition interest her, ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

Through my work with young people, I've developed concrete ways to connect with kids who are hurting. Here are just a few of ...

Captain Kendra Curtice was his executive officer on Fort Moore. She says they helped each other, sharing about struggles and then poetry, leading her to get help too. “I feel like I’m getting better.

I would, I decided, give a gift from the heart. I would make a special present with my very own hands. I would write her a ...