We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...

Maria Shriver gets candid about her difficult divorce, struggles with self-worth and more in her new poetry book, ‘I Am Maria' ...

Shriver recalls the ensuing “self-pity party” that included “a litany of trips to various therapists, healers, shamans, and ...

At 90, the master poet-lyricist Gulzar’s legacy is etched in history. I first listened to Gulzar’s poetry in an audio ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

The title, “The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had,” is taken from the words of Enid’s first husband during his time in the Pacific. Kanke says she has written many of the poems in this ...

Born in St. Louis to well-to-do parents, Sara Teasdale was a respected, award-winning poet in her time ... poem by Jean Toomer is full of metaphors that deliver a profound commentary on death ...