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

Amitoj formed a trinity with Punjabi poets Surjit Patar and Avtar Pash, fresh voices of the 60s, challenging the old order ...

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

Helen Schulman talks about writing the short stories in her new book, ‘Fools for Love.’ We also check in with Now Serving, a ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into spoken language.

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

LIMBONG: Why do you think he published that poem and not "Nothing New"? PARINI: Well, he went on to write a sequence of wonderful, short, aphoristic poems in from about 1917 till 1923.

These iconic book lines and recognized by everyone, regardless of whether you've read the title, seen the movie adaptation, or just know it somehow.

“Every year I’ve gone back to the national to do the poem onstage during the pageant, so I know a lot of the people involved there, and I love the program, because I think ‘we’ — people ...

Jon Stone is an editor at Sidekick Books. Poetry isn’t a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents. That ...