That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle explains why it's there.

Vinson Cunningham on the artist Rashid Johnson’s exhibition “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” a sprawling survey at the Guggenheim.

A new poem by Alice KinsellaShe saw it coming: the cold pit in the bed, his irregular hours, strolling in with expectation for dinner, a rub of her legs. She wondered if he had a second family ...

Ancient Chinese Poems Reveal the Decline of a Critically Endangered Porpoise Over 1,400 Years Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times ...

Amanda Gorman says she is "gutted" about the opposition to "The Hill We Climb" from a parent at a school in Florida. Read the poem in full here.

On the hunt for the holy grail? The Peculiar Poem in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 apparently points the way, but it's quite vague and hard to decipher.

Ahead of the June 2025 release of the long-awaited third part in the '28 Days Later' film series, a detail in the trailer's soundtrack has intrigued film (and literature) lovers.

You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

Gorman made history in 2021 as the then-22-year-old became the country’s youngest poet ever to deliver a recitation at a presidential inauguration.