For every stamp I’ve licked and locked on my skin. For every darling I’ve mailed myself to. Rubbing shoulders with birthday cards, tax notices, divorce […] ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

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In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that's central to ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Julia Stiles told UPI she thinks making her feature film directorial debut with the romance "Wish You Were Here" will make ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its ...

In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.

Among other attendees were the empress, Crown Prince Fumihito, his wife Princess Kiko and members of the general public whose poems were selected. The theme of this year's poems at the reading was ...

“We were filming that scene at the end of the summer ... two takes didn’t fare well given she actually had to redo the poem reading and re-create her emotion in postproduction due to a ...