The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
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World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
World Poetry Day: On Instagram and TikTok, poetry finds a new lease of life
From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...
World Poetry Day 2025: Theme, Significance, and Celebration
World Poetry Day 2025 celebrates poetry’s power to promote peace, inclusion, and cultural exchange, featuring global poets ...
6 poetry collections to spark a new love affair with reading this World Poetry Day
Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to ...
Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...
Maria Shriver on meeting heartbreak with poetry
In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...
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In the new, expanded ‘Letters of Emily Dickinson,’ get to know the poet like never before
The volume, edited by Dickinson scholars Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is the most complete collection of Dickinson ...
22-word love poem may look simple – but it's deemed one of best ever
The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...
Exclusive: Poet Donna Ashworth on finally finding 'freedom' in her 40s - and why failure is vital
With more than 300,000 copies of her seven books sold, Donna has become the face of modern poetry. Her works – which touch on ...
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8 poetry collections to add to your reading list in time for World Poetry Day
Night Sky With Exit Wounds is the haunting debut poetry collection by the winner of the 2017 TS Eliot Prize, Ocean Vuong.
Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...