If the solar system held a poetry slam, each planet would present its unique poetic style. Mercury delivers rapid-fire verses ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.

Feb 13 is celebrated as National Women’s Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, the renowned poet and ...

On the south side of the river / inside a mossy grove / they say there lives a boy / with pockets full of gold… So begins a ...

Allen High School student, Writisha Bezboruah, gained recognition for her bossa nova-themed poem in Albricias. Learn more ...

Over the course of nearly two centuries, the American jeweller has become synonymous with romance and engagements. Read more ...

Feeling like the odd one out is something Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert has dealt with her entire life.

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

When Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at former President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she became the youngest ...