Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so…
Poem
Efforts are underway to restore the Love Bank museum in Slovakia, which celebrates the “world’s longest love poem” and rents…
The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color,…
A new biography and a career-spanning collection of Anthony Hecht’s work show how fluent he was in his period’s style,…
After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a…
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch…
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in…
The South Korean writer Hwang In-suk feeds stray cats on late-night walks through Seoul. The routine informs her poems about…