Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring vitality — and his new book reveals exactly why. A survey of American history through the “intimate eye” that only poetry can provide, Brown ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

This is the second in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first installment here. Each side had its own claim to aesthetic and social righteousness.** Each side ...

Serena Williams knows the power of language. She understands the brawn of a single word, the chasm between being anointed "greatest of all time" and "greatest female of all time." This linguistic ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Joe Parisi publishes poems – only good ones, if he can help it. As long-serving editor of Poetry magazine, the American monthly based ...

THERE is a very good reason why the relation of poetry to political revolution should interest our generation. Poetry, to most people, stands for the intensely personal life of the individual spirit.