Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

So the ones who will remember will remember death on TV, the noiseless way screens make everything present, Sunday, morning. A parliament of witches cycles past, in real-life surprise, all ready in ...

this could be the first poem you've ever read. Your interpretation is just as valid as anyone else's, and what it makes you feel, what you see in it, is completely yours. And you have the power of ...

And as sure as the spirit of Shakespeare seizes you like the enveloping heat on a summer’s day, you start calling yourself a ...

The Christopher Reeve Story is guaranteed to make you weep, as it explores the life of the legendary actor, including the ...

You can also use actions. Your body can help bring a poem to life. Instead of just hearing the words, a body can help an audience see the world that the words create. I often learn a poem off by ...

“Poetry is the language of mystery and the ... to astonishing in the time it takes a cloud to skid across the sun. “You see the explosion, then it hits you. It feels like a physical ...

"I deeply disliked high school. I was actually close to being expelled at one point," Abby Jimenez told Newsweek.

In her interview with EL PAÍS, the writer — the first Native American to be honored as United States Poet Laureate — reflects ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

The poetry reading was anything but conventional ... “I think that maybe she can only really be fully experienced live, because you can see all of the different things that she does,” Ross ...