We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

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What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very ...

“Scream/Queen” is broken into parts with titles that play on sub-genres. “Para/Normal,” “Found/ Footage,” and “Body/Horror” ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of ... this poem was attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, but in his book Author Unknown: On The Trail Of Anonymous, Professor ...

“A village emptied of its children is a haunting,” the Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt writes in the opening poem of his second collection. The follow-up to This Wound Is a World, his debut which ...