Stay with me, though. I promise you that I will make the case below for why poetry is the best genre to start your writing ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

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 ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Poetry and music have always gone hand in hand, going back thousands of years prior to the advent of popular music. For an artist with as seminal and wide-reaching a discography as PJ Harvey, artistic ...

The film rebuts that idea with a quote from Charles Bukowski, "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can." That does not ...

Isabella Dail, head editor of The Prospect and staff writer for News, interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon about his ...

The best poets and experts in prose are being invited to submit entries for Wolverhampton Literature Festival's poetry competition.

Cypriot Australian poet Koraly Dimitriadis has won the Best Book of Narrative Poetry at the 21st Annual Best Book Awards, ...

On Friday next, Lizann Gorman will launch her debut poetry book, entitled Everything Leaves a Mark, in the Cot and Cobble in ...

Hartsburg native Kieron Walquist was one of five poets to win the prestigious 2024 National Poetry Series Competition.

Mic Check Poetry Fest, Iowa’s premier celebration of spoken word poetry, is bringing big headliners to an event that fosters ...