Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

We caught up with Zimbabwe-born Presley Pfereka about bucket list port stops, being apart from her daughters, and writing ...

Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of ...

At just 27 years old Jewel Rodgers is making her name known across the poetry world and beyond using her art to push ...

In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...

They were passing along what they’d heard from a poet who had already once experienced such a world around the time of their ...

On Tuesday, Universal Pictures released first-look images of Matt Damon in full costume as Odysseus. Damon will lead the new ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me," Caleb Carr recounts his extraordinarily loving, therapeutic friendship with ...