The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

A 1903 poem perfectly capturing the terror and tedium of war has made the 28 Years Later teaser a sensation. What makes it so horrific? It is probably the scariest ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays ...

Gary Oldman, who stars as grumpy yet gifted spy boss Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+ hit “Slow Horses,” has been recruited by the real MI5 – to narrate a Christmas poem. In collaboration with the ...

Some friends and I, with too much time on our hands, have long been collecting examples of such expressions, which we call ...

Not surprisingly, the best poems are by those writers who, like Douglas Dunn ... halfrhymes and no rhymes at all. Thus the quatrain of The Air: “What is this dark and silent caravan/that being nowhere ...

Surveying poets on the unconscious sources of their verse, and an accidental ghost co-author, in this week’s excerpts from Nature’s archive.

My work encompasses activist poetry but also does a lot more than protest. I am reinventing bicultural forms. I am an innovator: the creator of the Chinese-American quatrain, of the lyric manifesto, ...

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters for decades. Her poetry, writes Adrienne Rich, “holds up a mirror to the American experience entire, its dreams, self-delusions and ...

As the year draws to a close, it’s time to talk doomsday, my babies — and no one grips us with grim quite like Nostradamus. Nostradamus, Nos if you’re nasty, was a 16th-century astrologer ...