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

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

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

The 75-year-old poet, translator, and editor is the 54th recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a prestigious award ...

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 ...

It's the immigrants' fault because they know how to lie really well. They hide their work-filled days and the little time ...

The 32-page picture book features an original poem ... poet. “I finished it on the night of Jan. 6, and so it’s important for me to just process my own emotions and thoughts as an American ...

Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography ... wrote the poem "Dear Basketball ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought a new – and much-needed – sophistication to American journalism when it launched 100 years ...

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

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...