There isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.” That dandy epigraph, from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem ...

World Poetry Day came and went without much of a fanfare. March 21 was held in awe by many as the first (or second) day of spring leaving poetry to ...

Living during the early to mid-20th century, Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and writer, was a religious mystic.

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. This poem emerges from a parashat that tells of a particularly dark moment in our history—a time when our people fashioned ...

PARIS (AP) — Military officials from more than 30 nations will take part in Paris talks on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine, a French military official said Monday.

But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start. As the ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

“Instagram has turned poetry into a conversation, not just an art form,” says Shanaya. “It’s like the digital version of the salons in Paris, except instead of smoky rooms, we have curated ...

Each month, we publish an original poem, written in response to a work of contemporary art. This month, Camille Ralphs chose works from The Romance of the Rose (2024) by Ella Walker. Walker’s ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.