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 ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' illustrated by Florence Kingsford/Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia ...

It is a work of sensual lyric poetry that portrays scenes of actual and imagined trysts between the poem’s female protagonist and her lover. Graphic descriptions of both male and female bodies pervade ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took a jibe at Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha, and said the poem that he recited to criticise the BJP government was written ...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sappho (the poetess) and Alcaeus. What are the top poems inspired by ancient Greece? Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Walters Museum Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift ... a haunting highwayman and a gruesome ghost train ...

Tell me that you do not think of me, that you have forgotten the wild proscenium of cloud, how bodies affix and then elide, the sky’s stenography. I only ask for you to tell me you have not ...

After co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised Stiles’ “breakout role” in the film and said it “ages even better” every time she rewatches it, she asked Stiles about filming the poem scene ...