The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

I loved the student reporting on Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s “Oh Shoot” sessions because I love poetry and basketball. Poetry ...

Like any young mother, Pramila dreamed of watching her child grow stronger with every passing month. But when Neeraj was around nine months old, those dreams ...

A new collection of poems by Iris Murdoch, Poems From An Attic, has also been published after those clearing her attic found ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John ...

Enid Osborn’s new poetry collection, Pedregosa St., is a special volume of poetry which spans 28 years of living in a hundred ...

“A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore.

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.