The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Science in meter and verse ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated ...

The interview with the translator of 'Firelets' highlights the challenges and motivations behind translating Bharati's poems.

Poets have long been drawn to ballet, and not surprisingly, they write about their favorite dancers and ballet companies.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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

But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart ...