The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry. In my sophomore year of college, I took a creative writing class and was ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Edited by Helen Phelan, Marie McCarthy and Nicholas Carolan, ‘Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music’ is a collection of essays, reflections and poems inspired by the musical life of the Mícheál Ó ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

After Sterling Morrison quit the Velvet Underground, he traded his guitar for poetry books. We take a close look at his ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

To mark Black History Month, Now Toronto is spotlighting five Black Canadian authors whose works explore the nuances of the Black experience.

On city streets, buildings are laid out in a pattern that, along with the spaces between them, form an iamb – a prosodic element of poetry, in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an ...