A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

The poem, which was published 100 years ago, has beguiled a remarkable array of minds By Tanjil Rashid When, two years ago, Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet, led a literature seminar at the ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

Finch defends her daring to practise the male profession of poetry using heroic couplets and subversive jokes The Apology ’Tis true, I write; and tell me by what rule I am alone forbid to play the ...

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...

Omar Robinson’s Boy Willie wants to stake his legacy by selling the family piano so he can buy Mississippi farmland from the Sutters, the family who enslaved Boy Willie’s ancestors, in “The Piano ...

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’ ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

Poetry is maybe the most human of all human endeavors. One would think this is one of the very few fields that artificial intelligence could not take over. But according to a recent study, this is not ...

For Malcolm Washington, an appreciation for August Wilson plays runs in the family. Several years ago, his father Denzel committed to producing film adaptations of Wilson’s Century Cycle plays — a ...