Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott If ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

"The Misfits" by Albuquerque's Jimmy Santiago Baca is a collection of 15 short stories and a poem about disconnections. The disconnection from mainstream society, from family, from friends, from ...

A couple of months after my father died, I stumbled across a file in one of his drawers. It was labeled “Poets on Parents.” It was a fat file, probably two inches thick, stuffed with copies of mostly ...

Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of songwriters, we believe that writing a song presents a unique set of challenges and ...

Shelley Chen isn’t really a swimmer. Instead, the idea of basing A Memoir Blue, an interactive poem about a swimming champion and her mother, largely underwater came to Chen in the bath. Chen told ...