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

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

The writer Geoff Dyer unravels a tale in which the intricacies of model airplanes and the comic horrors of school lunch ...

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Abstract: Objective: Pain assessment in children continues to challenge clinicians and researchers, as subjective experiences of pain require inference through observable behaviors, both involuntary ...

When Edward Hirsch was born, his aunt sobbed at how “strange” he looked. Everyone else said he looked like his aunt.

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