I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Alone or strung together they are delicious ... and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary. I treasured the lyrics found on thin crinkly paper inside of a well-loved ...

With the permission of Dạ Ngân, we are proud to share two of those poems, translated into English for the first time. They were both written in 1982, a time when the couple was separated: he lived in ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience ... at the end of the lines don’t quite match, and those near rhymes may be an omen of trouble to come. But there are letter-perfect ...