ELLSWORTH — From a sun-filled cafe on Main Street that gave lie to the chill air outside, Carl Little talked poetry. A poet ...

Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection of poetry that ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone ...

In "Planetfall," imaging the cosmos is more than an exploratory pursuit. It is an ecstatic act of creative expression.

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war  – and why the peace process is far from over.

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read ...

A University of Virginia poetry professor says the reason might be a simple matter of taste. “We all want very different things from verse,” said Lisa Russ ... In high school, for example, Spaar and ...

The poetry of Fady Joudah ... he points to the logical contradictions that underpin those ideas. For example, he asks, “Shall I condemn myself a little / for you to forgive yourself / in ...