W. J. Lofton’s captivating and lyrical new poetry collection, boy maybe, encompasses his Southern upbringing as well as his experiences with being Black and queer. The Chicago-born, Alabama-raised ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

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

Best-selling poet Donna Ashworth has always had a way with words – even if she had forgotten all about it. The Sunday Times bestseller, whose most recent book To the Women has just spent another week ...

In one of the more benign instances, the researchers elicited glimpses of Claude’s thought process while it wrote poems. They asked Claude to complete a poem starting, “He saw a carrot and had ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

What can you expect with Hulu's new queer, Palm Springs-set series "Mid-Century Modern"? Co-writer Max Mutchnick ... order to bring their characters to life — also gave them the upper hand ...

At least, that's how things are looking to me. I'm currently 21-hours deep in Ubisoft Quebec's gorgeous new RPG, and the only signs of modern day storytelling have come from the Animus itself.

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.