Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

The longest poem ever written is a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic called the "Mahabharata," which clocks in at roughly 1.8 million words. But the poem's daunting length didn't stop Toronto's Why Not ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s great and terrible sonnets or Yeats’s Among School Children (which I once heard Martin Carter call the best poem ever written) or Derek Walcott’s astonishing ...

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 ...

In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on some of their favorite poems written by Black authors. Whether discovered as an online post or as part of a course ...

While the exact cause of his death remains a mystery, “The Raven” lives on as one of the author’s most influential works—not to mention one of the most famous poems ever written.

He mixed folk, rock, blues, balladry, bluegrass, country, poetry and journalism together ... It’s one of the best songs ever written about the hunger for human freedom, and is said to have ...

Her On Poetry columns ... heathen faith. As ever, I can’t claim to have read all the hundreds of books that were published this year or to believe I can say which are “best.” ...

According to a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, non-expert readers of poetry cannot distinguish poetry written by AI from ... remains as difficult as ever – perhaps more so in a world ...

More surprising, readers preferred the AI-generated poems — and were more likely to guess those were written by humans than real works by famous poets. “It is quite a weird phenomenon,” said ...