Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a ...

Three new poetry collections by women both well-rooted in Alaska and well-traveled in the world share close attention to the world and compassion for all its beings while bringing very different ...

Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

By ITZEL LUNA Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician’s “first love.” The ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Who shouted for joy at the birth of the color blue? When I look once more at the sea, does the sea see me or not see me? Why do the waves ask me the same questions I ask them? These, and hundreds more ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Last week, a message from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón blasted beyond Earth’s atmosphere, where it will ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

"Some poetry of mine is born of actual events and experiences, exploring social themes and human values," says Mukul Kumar, ...

In James Merrill’s Collected Poems, all the “Previously Uncollected Poems” appear bunched together at the end, thus depriving ...

Her debut short story collection, Code Noir, won the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize , the Trillium Book Award and won the 2025 Carol ...