Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Focus Features has set a March 28 limited release for The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is set to have its world premiere at this month’s Sundance Film Festival. Pic follows Charles (Tim Key ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion.” Visit him at www.JewishPoetry.net ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

It’s so simple and so effective in getting across the message that everything is fleeting and that nothing can stay forever. It’s a poem in one line, but Harrison didn’t write it ... the track stands ...

Since the 16th century, singing ballads of folk hero Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti or Dulla Bhatti has become a sine qua non for Lohri. Set in today’s west Punjab, in the 16th-century tale ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...

Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web. On those rare occasions when my internet provider has an outage, life seems to come to a standstill. Everything from ...

The Coen brothers aren't the only brothers to have successfully made films together – brothers Safdie, Marx and Russo would be all-too-quick to remind you of that – but if you wanted to rank ...