Poem-a-Day is brilliant because it makes space in the everyday racket for something as meaningful as a poem. Read Kamila Aisha Moon’s “Fannie Lou Hamer” below. Fannie Lou Hamer.

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.

At "Voices for Palestine" at Hed Hi Studio, the Charleston community gathered to uplift Palestinian culture through poetry, ...

Agnes Frimston was taken by surprise when a crying woman burst into a bathroom while she on the loo. Instead of ignoring the person sobbing nearby, Agnes calmed her down enough to find out that ...

'Rock Me, Mercy': A Poem Written In Mourning The heartbreaking loss of lives in Newtown, Conn., moved the Louisiana-born poet Yusef Komunyakaa to put his emotions into words.

Read the Poem NASA Will Send to Jupiter’s Moon Europa Alongside Ada Limón’s words, you can add your name to the spacecraft that will search for life on the icy moon.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot ...

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.