“Lost in America” is a poem of powerful juxtapositions. It has the appearance of prose, yet through anaphoric repetition, it creates a rhythmic experience closer to sacred and liturgical ...

In Dispiriting Times, It Helps to Get ‘Lost in Thought’ Don’t let the complexities of the fall semester amid Covid-19 overwhelm all the good things that drove you to your discipline in the ...

Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

A researcher uncovered a fragment from a long-lost 12th-century French poem in the binding of a book at a University of Oxford library in Britain.

It is obvious that there became A Dorothy Parker Poem -- a poem that begins on one note and turns the reader around in the last several lines. Not Much Fun is full of such poems.

The Henchman was sung again last week, and out poured another audience filled with that unique combination of patriotism, musical affection, and gratitude for amorous poetry in a language they can ...

Cody Bryant (behind) and Haley Woloshen photographed on June 24 in Hermosa Beach, California. Even the night Cody Bryant and Haley Woloshen first met while on vacation in Hawaii sounds like ...

Gander thinks Neruda was so prolific, he simply lost track of these poems. They can be found again in Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda, which comes out on May 1.

Forget all that fancy poetry nonsense. A poem by Billy Collins gets right to the point, explores an idea and then jumps off the page with a closing thought.