She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

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

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

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

In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

Visual art, poetry and augmented reality collide in a new exhibit at Create Art & Tea. The exhibit, “Voices Inside My Head” ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

An ode to Josh Hart, who is playing (and posting) his way into being all of New York’s Valentine.

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about ... “child” to refer back to “me,” who seems to be cradled in the daughter’s maternal arms. The poem is so vivid, so specific, that ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary about Boulder County poet Andrea Gibson grappling with an incurable cancer diagnosis, wins over Sundance audiences’ hearts.