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 ...

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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 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 ...