As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

My husband of 11 years and I still enjoy each other's company, but he is terrible at special occasions (birthday, Mother’s ...

Rebecca and husband Andrew are already ... The heartbreaking poem read: 'Harper Parsons I'd dreamt about you for a long, long time, My own little girl and one to call mine, You'd have my blue ...

Eventually, Limón husband, Lucas Marquardt ... pulling her chin toward her neck. “In my mind, the poem was on a tiny little chip. No one would see it; it would be more of an ethereal experience.” ...

In "My Ireland," commissioned for Dublin’s St ... modern Irish problems and barriers to progress highlighted and the poem does nothing to gloss over any self-questioning and self-analyzing ...

A Hezbollah garb-wearing protester accused of hatefully harassing a Jewish straphanger reportedly read a poem aloud before he was sentenced in another antisemitic hate crime case. The bizarre ...

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

Scott Cairns has kindled the warm, baritone fires of poetry ... with My Greeks" is, undoubtedly, another gem in a canon of precious poetic matter. Cairns reveals himself as a man and artist ...