For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

These nostalgic hit rock songs dominated the radio in the 1990s but many listeners may have missed their dark meanings.

Quite a few years ago, when I went through the most difficult time of my life, it felt like everything crumbled away. I was ...

By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it ...

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

Seattle inaugurated its fifth-ever Civic Poet, Dujie Tahat, in a ceremony in the City Council Chambers. Hosted by the Office ...

While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Maria Shriver is reflecting on a difficult chapter in her life. In her upcoming book, 'I Am Maria', ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

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

When French writer Marion Fritsch began posting short texts on Instagram in 2023, she did not think her work qualified as poetry. That was, until everybody else told her so. “When I chose my status ...