The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient ... the brilliance of his poetic art would make his vernacular words endure—as indeed it did. Mr. Luzzi notes that an early reader ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

For example, since JFK’s 1961 swearing-in to the 44th president’s taking the oath of office for the second time, only one political party has muzzled, in Faulkner’s words, poetry’s “puny ...

We learn Goethe’s last words in the 19th. This, I feel sure, is the better time to receive them, in the poem’s own Frostian sequence. In other iterations, the poet-persona simply mentions ...

Even though I occasionally post some of my published poetry on social media, I always prefer more conventional publishing techniques.

In its framing, narrative approach, and density, Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl was unlike any that have come before it.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...