A new scholarly study reveals how the Nobel-winning poet’s verse reflects a profoundly sacramental imagination.

When Soto went crosstown I couldn’t / believe it, the traitor, the bat in front of / that sculpture Judge.” ...

Amanda Gorman kicked off Super Bowl 55 in style, praising the honorary team captains and frontline COVID-19 heroes in her original poem, "Chorus of the Captains." The 22-year-old Youth Poet Laureate ...

In this original poem, author Francesca Momplaisir reflects on Assata Shakur’s journey, weaving memory, resistance, and ...

Amanda Gorman is speaking out after access to her inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" was restricted at a K-8 school in Florida. The 25-year-old poet, who read her poem at President Joe Biden's ...

When you arrive to the yellow objective marker, speak to the Zen Master. Select the "sit" option. After this, you can either pay him for the brain dance you're about to take or not. The brain dance ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. In his weekly interview with writers, Scott ...

Cracking the Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might be the hardest puzzle in the game. Though many of the treasure maps are tough to work out, at least they have lots of details to go on.

Despite gaining national renown after “The Raven” was published in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe never enjoyed great financial success. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror ...