Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...

In addition to his prolific musical catalogue, Merle Haggard had a surprisingly extensive, unreleased collection of poetry.

Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what happened to them. This talent may have had something to do with ...

From the allegorical nightmares of Mother! to the hypnotic surrealism of The Lighthouse, these films show just how poetic ...

The Old Forge Library reminds artists and poets that submissions for its 2026 Poetry and Art Extravaganza are due in ...

Sylvie Terjesen, a Canyon Crest Academy junior, won the regional Poetry Out Loud recitation competition Tuesday. Next she’ll ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...

Katie Kemple fell in love with poetry as a child, when her father first read to her T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of ...

Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife with socio-political commentary. Well, I'm here to tell you there are ...

On Wednesday, in this week of classical meters in English poetry, we noted that the sapphic stanza was born on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C., thanks to the poet Sappho. The alcaic stanza of ...

A freshman dorm mate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. Sure, there is at least one young contemporary poet, ...

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. Like many millennials, I was educated, if that’s the right word for it, on the internet. The ...