Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

There are several researchers who point to poetry’s remarkable ability to not only decrease feelings of fear, sadness, anger, ...

For Muriel Spark the process was simple. First, the novelist said, “I write the title, and then I write my name.” Then, she ...