Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and ...

With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present.

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been penned throughout history, but these are the most famous poems ever written.

In the 1970s, a poetry prize changed with the times Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Hayden were among those whose work captured the richness and variety of American life ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet ...

In A Little History of Poetry, renowned academic and expert on the subject John Carey puts it succinctly, “If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising language ...

Part memoir, part homage, part performance history, “Spoken Word” is divided into three parts that show the evolution of the performance poetry scene from the 1960s to the 2010s.

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry transcends time, offering readers a glimpse into the depth of human ...

Not Chairman Mao’s bestseller, but Poetry for the Many, a verse compendium with annotations to guide fellow travelers through the dialectics of verse.

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.

In a new study, non-expert readers of poetry could not distinguish poetry written by AI from that written by canonical poets.