Take the Book of Lamentations ... At the end of his life, Calvino suggested an image for the new millennium: ‘the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises himself above the weight of the ...

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

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...

Gorman, 26, rose to literary stardom as a teen herself: In 2015, she published the poetry book “The One for Whom Food is Not Enough.” In 2017, she became the first winner of the National Youth ...

But publishers were concerned—not only about the book’s subject matter but also its form, which included images. The Wickedest was a different story. “It was one of my mandates, going in ...

“You’re in a new place, you don’t know what’s around the corner. You’ve got a different jungle, you’ve got more water, you’ve got higher cliffs,” Marshall continued. “There’s a ...

Its name was Lion — the name Munro would give to his latest book of poetry. "We're so selective about our vulnerabilities, and rightfully so, but it just wormed its way in my mind and I was ...