Back when I chose my Classic poem, “I was in a Hurry” by Dunya Mikhail, I was struck by its powerful message of losing a country through the comparison of lottery tickets or Purgatory — and I was ...

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 ...

Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...

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

W hen Audre Lorde released her poetry collection Coal in 1976, her status as a groundbreaking Black lesbian feminist poet was ...