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

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.

Look, there aren’t many people on Earth more excited about Christopher Nolan’s movie version of the Odyssey than I am. So I ...

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

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

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

Universal Pictures unveiled the first look at Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey earlier this week – and with the ...

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 ...

"Here I am getting scotched in Cardhu," the author writes.

And here, maybe just because an apple and a dad are in the same frame, the poem ... not in psychology or sentiment but in a cleareyed reckoning with the material facts of the world. A photograph ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...