Rita Ann Higgins’s Jiving with Wasps presents an indispensable mirror to death-dealing cultures of neglect and abuse. By also ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...

Uncertainty is a word that pops up frequently in conversations. The pandemic, gun violence, international conflagrations, and the escalating number of climate disasters have increased our concerns ...

Flying in the face of much contemporary poetry, Nam Le’s first collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is defiantly cerebral, relishing the polysyllabic, the latinate and the esoteric. This is ...

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced with war, illness, worry, or great changes of any kind. Poetry offers many ...