A month before COVID struck, I took a course in writing poetry. I chose poetry for the same reason I might have chosen opera ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote a poem that will be brought to Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA is sending a poem by United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón on its upcoming Europa ...

A writer journeys from Bihar to Karnataka, discovering that a poem by Naresh Saxena holds the key to understanding water, and ...

There are few forms of communication that are as powerful as a handwritten letter. So we recently asked listeners to send us poems in letter — or epistolary — form, addressed to anyone of their ...

In this week’s poem, “Instructions to Lover,” Egypt Pooler offers a lyrical and intriguingly surreal set of directions. I ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By ...

The moment my oldest child was born, I reached for an anthology of Romantic poetry that I have owned for decades and began reading. “Sweet joy befall thee,” I said to my baby, through tears, bestowing ...

Mary Ann Hoberman, an award-winning poet who wrote dozens of books for children, capturing the essence of childhood in her seemingly effortless rhymes, died July 7 at her home in Greenwich, Conn. She ...