In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...

The literary world often seems to stand apart from the working class, but poets like Fish are keeping the tradition of ...

Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate.

There are things we know and cannot say, that cannot be organized into component words, which might be parsed and sorted and ...

Adom Olam, the Ruler of the universe, recognized as constitutional monarch of all Jews, since with a shofar we are able to ...

The sun-kissed vineyard known as Poetry is carved into a steep west-facing hillside, reaching some of the highest elevations ...

The prize is named for the late pharmaceutical heir whose $100 million donation to Poetry magazine in 2002 led to the creation of the Poetry Foundation. Weatherford, who has published dozens of ...

I love you just the way you are as we knock back a few words before you slip away.

Wil Gibson fell in love with poetry at the age of 8 when he saw the poet laureate of Chicago belting out verse. But ...

The New Yorker presents the longlists for Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

Roger Craik, emeritus professor of English at Kent State University at Ashtabula, has taken second place in the 2024 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Winning the competition includes a cash prize and ...

DAVID HALAAS: "Poetry, in addition to being a vehicle for a deeper understanding of the world around us, can teach us much about ourselves and others. And, poetry so often can make us see life in diff ...