It’s not quite right to call Eileen Chong’s sixth book of poetry, We Speak of Flowers, a collection. As Chong explains in her ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

As with her award-winning fiction, her poetry dwells often in the cartography and fables of the land in which she was born. In her devotion towards flowers, brooks, and mountains, Kire allies ...

Charles Flowers was born on Nov. 12, 1942, in Knoxville. The Knoxville News Sentinel published a notice that Howard Fischer ...

There’s a scene in the coming-of-a-certain-age novel All Fours when Miranda July describes an exquisite hotel room, the kind her character (who is much like herself) can’t usually afford, but finds ...

One donated piece was inspired by A Boat Trip at Night, a poem by Wang Yu of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) — "In the bawls of ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career ... Bring the singer, bring the nester; / Give the buried flower a dream …” (Flowers again.) But the fourth line—“Make ...

Author Michael Rosen during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic at the National Memorial ...