In 1922, T. S. Eliot released to the world his account of the Culture of Death in the form of a modernist poem of 434 lines.

Henry Taylor was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia to write exquisitely crafted verses about wild places.

One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...

His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse ...

Yellow by Sukrita. And, An Afternoon in My Mind by Sonnet Mondal Yellow by Sukrita The first thing that strikes one ...

Pannir Selvam Pranthaman is one of several Malaysian nationals currently on death row in Singapore. In 2017, aged 29, he was ...

Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents. That, or abstract concepts like love and death. Poems also tend to be thought of, wrongly or not, as true accounts ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Or is it the thrill, the future's breath, that whispers life into wires and death? Perhaps they love what they cannot see—The absence of scars, of frailty. Yet what is a poem, if not the flame ...