William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

After last year’s eccentric line-up, the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize (the UK’s most illustrious and most lucrative award for a ...

Breakout poet and mom Jessica Urlichs talks her new book and wows with her nuanced take on motherhood. Don't miss our ...

National Poem in Your Pocket Day is Friday, April 29, and it’s the perfect day to dive into a good poetry book. Whether you’re on an emotional healing journey, or you want to escape to a world built ...

Poetry Has All My Pain and Love Through the Eyes of a Naive Village Boy, a two-part collection by Adetimilehin Inioluwa ...

April is National Poetry Month, so it seemed the perfect time to read poetry, which is not my usual genre. “The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane seemed a good place to start with its small size and ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

I’m all for hard-working Eastern Washington farmers getting enough water for their crops this summer, but the recent pulse of cold wind and slashing rain has gotten me down. Such was my disposition ...

For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most ...

Renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya is primarily known as a novelist. His works like 'Bless Me Ultima,' 'Tortuga,' 'Albuquerque' and 'Heart of Aztlan' are classics that have established him as the ...