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 ...

At times the collection is remarkably self-aware, questioning the role of poetry and interrogating the limits of poetic form.

The cosmic calendar and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” work in unlikely tandem in “The Life of Chuck,” filmmaker Mike ...

Flag Day is June 14. What does it represent? What do we cherish in this nation of ours? In the words of John Denver, it could be "... poems, prayers ...

Growing up in Minneapolis, Bao Phi carried with him the quiet weight of a family history shaped by war and survival. His family had fled during the violence and upheavals around the ending of the war ...

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 ...

Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" is an ode to the ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths.

To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a ...

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of ...

“I cherish you as my Queen of Bad Influences,” Constance observed. “I’m not much in that regard,” Minna responded. “Though it ...