Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

The celebrity clan have so Truman Show-ed their existence that all significant events in their lives have occurred on camera ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

I recently realised that I’d been brainwashed by Valentine’s Day and the garish gift-giving that is splattered all over ...

That there are two sides to every story is cliché. That there are two stories to every marriage is almost science ...

Robson's dad, Brian, wrote 'Little Girl' when Karen was a young child. After thinking the recording was lost, it has been ...

It's the immigrants' fault because they know how to lie really well. They hide their work-filled days and the little time ...

Glyn Maxwell's "Stargazing" embodies the essence of human love. Not flashy, boasting or indulgent, but simple, beautiful and ...