A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

Michael Pedersen, Edinburgh’s Makar or Poet Laureate, reflects on the city and its artistic riches as he searches for its soul ...

I’m David Harrison, Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November ...

so you end up with a lot of metaphorical thinking about poems. Regularity in a poem becomes equivalent to regularity in politics. There are a lot of those arguments, which only work as metaphor ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Johnny Tillotson, the singer behind Sixties hits “Poetry in Motion” and “It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin’,” has died at the age of 86. Tillotson’s wife, Nancy, confirmed the news in a ...

Quanta spoke with Hie about the parallels between DNA and human language, what Evo can and can’t do, and the poetry in programming ... I took a long walk by myself. I was thinking about DNA language ...

As stated in “Annotations on the Four Books”: Poetry is grounded in human nature and temperament ... The act of the “mind” thinking and then making choices regarding human nature and temperament is ...

Nicholson studied Sufi poetry and for a fellowship dissertation he translated from Persian into English Jalaluddin Rumi’s ghazals with Sufi themes and presented them with annotations and an ...

The next few months flew by in a flurry of finding new poems, annotating them, and rehearsing them ad nauseum to make sure I’d memorized them down to the letter. I attribute much of the hard ...