Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry. In my sophomore year of college, I took a creative writing class and was ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

As Wilson finished his famous ... current American poetry has not often excelled in public forms like political or satiric verse, it has nonetheless produced personal poems of unsurpassed beauty ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

Over the course of nearly two centuries, the American jeweller has become synonymous with romance and engagements. Read more ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.