Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

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 ...

This poem feels like anticipatory mourning as well as words of comfort for his friend’s lonely journey. I talked about “Waldeinsamkeit” with poet Stu Waton, the editor of Prelude magazine and a ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

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 ...

It is not clear, however, whether this is a direct effect of being alone, or because lonely people tend to be less active and eat poorer diets. Loneliness also affects mental wellbeing—another ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

There’s trouble in AI paradise. The advent of artificial intelligence chatbots has led some lonely lovers to find a friend in the digital realm to help them through hard times in the absence of ...