A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.

Donika Kelly wrote part of her new poetry collection, "The Natural Order of Things," during her first year of teaching, at a time when U.S. drone strikes in military conflicts were killing civilians.

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Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

It’s always a great moment when one discovers a hitherto unfamiliar voice, the way I did just recently. “Soon the summer / ...

One such figure is Tao Yuanming (365-427), a poet who renounced official life to spend his days in wine-accompanied seclusion ...

Here is the latest installment of Poet’s Corner, presented by the Edmonds Poetry Group. Her Name is “Autumn” She’s a world ...