Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on ...

T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...

Hofstein wrote poetry from the age of nine in Hebrew, later also in Russian and Ukrainian, from 1909 in Yiddish. His first ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...

We present an extract from John Montague: A Poet's Life, Adrian Frazier's new biography of the celebrated poet, who passed away in 2026 aged 87. In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry ...

Tupelo Press, a North Adams-based publisher that highlights the voices of marginalized writers. On Feb. 9, it announced that it would not comply with the National Endowment for the Arts’ new ...

What is the cost of poetry? Must poets be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive? Or is this just a myth? Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in-control, but poets should be ...

Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here. And, so began a tradition of burials and memorials ...

The Weaver Poets were a group of people who worked in the linen industry in Ulster in the 18th and 19th Centuries and wrote poems mainly in Ulster-Scots. Ulster-Scots is a version of the Scots ...