Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

In honor of the pollen that has mysteriously appeared on my car this morning, here are some poems related to spring, the ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

With the start of the playoffs about a week away, Vowels is averaging a team-high 15.2 points and has made a team-best 72 ...

Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma said the "arrogance" of opposition parties in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh led to their defeats in elections whose results were declared on Saturday. Sharma's main target ...

Glück’s poem stirred by ancient Greece is haunting and melancholic. It lingers with the reader for a long time. Though it doesn’t directly reference ancient Greece or its myths, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” ...

“In childhood’s long darkened night / burn little, flickering lanterns”: so one early poem in this collection begins. That may be what Ditlevsen does best, emerging from childhood’s coffin ...

is a radio producer and poet. Her first poetry pamphlet is Sleeping Through (2019), and her work has been published in various magazines including Poetry Review. She is interested in how writers and ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.