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 ...

Part Three of John's funeral just wrapped on Days of Our Lives, and it ended with two of the people whose lives, perhaps, ...

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

Mitchell's latest poem leans on what he refers to as his "suspect memory," which recalls a corner grocery store named Bates.

The dossier we present unfolds a variety of these forms of relationality. In the article by Izabela Leal, “Writing as word drawing: translation and image in Yãnomam mytho-poems”, we see the drawings ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the racial slur several times to tell the story of an unemployed boy named Tom - Paul Popper/Popperfoto ...

He used the shocking N-word in the poem, which was penned during the band's Hamburg residency in 1961. The offensive words are in stark contrast to the beautiful songs Lennon penned in his epic ...