Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...

While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

The Atlanta-based artist's third collection of poetry, “boy maybe,” takes readers on an emotional roller coaster exploring grief, love, police brutality and Black culture.

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

On Jan. 20, 2021, two weeks after the horrific attack on our Capitol by some of our fellow Americans, President Joe Biden was ...

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

Author and poet Sarah Trudgeon lives in Great Barrington, Mass., but she stays connected to South Florida through poetry: for ...

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore." The poem’s political significance ... of course, will come and steal the ...

As I turned up the meandering driveway leading to my vacation weekend home base, it was natural to slip right into one of the most famed Robert Frost poems: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...

Carl Dean, country music icon Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville. He was 82. Parton announced the news on Instagram in a post on Monday evening. “Carl and I ...

A local legislator turned to literary language this weekend to lavish love on Elon Musk. U.S. Rep Randy Weber surprised some when he shared on social media a poem he wrote about the ...