On June 12, Eve Karlin made Aliyah to Israel with the assistance of Nefesh B’Nefesh. Twelve hours later, at 3:30 a.m., she ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel ...

Carentan was a key strategic objective in the Normandy campaign, and the men of the 101st Airborne fought some of the most intense battles of D-Day+6 to capture it. The Band of Brothers miniseries ...

A St. Petersburg court sentenced anti-war activist Darya Kozyreva to nearly three years in prison after ruling she "discredited" the Russian military by gluing a poem to a monument dedicated to a ...

Poet in Residence with Poetry Ireland Anne Tannam welcomes us to this year's Poetry Day Ireland celebrations... Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers ...

A.O. Scott: I’ve always been interested in poetry. In a previous life, I was doing a Ph.D. in English, and the dissertation that I never wrote was about mid-20 th -century American poetry. It ...

Emerging research finds that poetry can help us feel happier, healthier, and more connected to each other.

When his poem The Waste Land appeared over a century ago, in the early 1920s, it shook the literary scene of Europe and soon became one of the most talked-about pieces of poetry ever written.

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...