Poetry

The Enduring Mystery of Walt Whitman's Meditation on Love and Sexuality

By Karen Karbiener / Art by Brian Selznick

Foreday in the Morning

By Jericho Brown

Duty

By Natasha Trethewey

How Poetry Helped Sustain John McCain During His Years as a Prisoner of War

By Olivia B. Waxman
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'To Praise a Poet': 30 Portraits of Poets From the LIFE Archives

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost and 27 others

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

This Real-Life 'Giving Tree' Stump Gives All the Feels

A poetic soul inscribed Shel Silverstein's words on a newly-hewn stump.

By Raisa Bruner

How To Understand Pain Better

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Jim Jarmusch Talks About His New Movie, Paterson, and the Exuberance of Great Poetry

The director offers a mini reading list for anyone out there who may be a poetry lover, but just doesn’t know it yet

By Stephanie Zacharek

When Edward Weston's Photographs Met Walt Whitman's Prose

A new show at the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art bring the two American greats together

By Bianca Silva

Read the Roald Dahl Poem That Was Lost in a Desk Drawer for Nearly 25 Years

It's on display for what would have been the author's 100th birthday

By Megan McCluskey

Here's the American Poet Pope Francis Just Quoted

Pope Francis cited a Midwestern poet when urging U.S. bishops to welcome Hispanic immigrants into their churches Wednesday.In a particularly poetic passage of a speech at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, the pontiff...

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Teen's Poem Goes Viral After Stranger Finds It in a Bar

The poet is in Brooklyn; the bar in London

By Sarah Begley

6 Poems 2016 Candidates Should Read

It's National Poetry Month and the official start of several 2016 campaigns

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Poem at Richard III's Reburial

The actor is also a distant relative of King Richard III, who died 530 years ago

By Noah Rayman

Why Some Blamed Poetry for Sylvia Plath's Death

Feb. 11, 1963: Sylvia Plath commits suicide

By Jennifer Latson

A Creepy, Tragic Formula for Commercial Success

Jan. 29, 1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s 'The Raven' is first published

By Jennifer Latson

Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 9

1. Low oil prices change the math on the Keystone XL pipeline, but politics are still controlling the debate.By Michael A. Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations2. Terrorists are despicable, but they aren’t irrational....

By The Aspen Institute

Poet Strand Dead at 80

His career spanned 50 years

By Entertainment Weekly / Joshua Rivera

Drunk Poetry Fans and the First Reading of 'Howl'

Oct. 7, 1955: Allen Ginsberg reads 'Howl' for the first time, at San Francisco’s Six Gallery

By Jennifer Latson

Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems

A conversation with Jones about his debut collection, Prelude to Bruise, and whether poetry can ever go viral

By Nolan Feeney
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