The wick hisses  in a flat pool of wax  and the drape is drawn  above. The summit  blues buckle  under this great taking.  All is pitch-dark as soil  save heroes and horses,  dotted, glowing.  At the ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud ...

Jacob’s early scholarship focused on the Nibelungenlied; Schmiesing argues that his fascination with the epic poem stemmed ...

AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

With over 40 armed conflicts now taking place around the world, the costs of warfare are immense and continue to mount with each passing day. Russia’s war on Ukraine is estimated to have resulted in ...

Two artists who befriended during a writers retreat in Okoboji created a film about sharing poetry as a Black artist.

Closer scrutiny reveals, however, that the ‘system’ gradually evolved, and that early poetry often features a flexible and expressive use of metaphors. Scholars generally assume that kennings are of ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but ...

For anyone who was a teenager in the nineties or later, though, she was already well-known. Her poems are a constant on British school exam syllabuses, although one, ‘Education for Leisure’, was ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The specific seething spareness of the New England said/unsaid lives in Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection of poetry, “Certain Shelter” (June Road). Death hovers, “bodies stop being,” as ...