Need to solve a challenging problem? Read or write some poetry! Compelling research demonstrates that poetry can accelerate ...

Barry Hill’s new poetry collection Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections ...

You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild poems, too.

A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

We present an extract from John Montague: A Poet's Life, Adrian Frazier's new biography of the celebrated poet, who passed away in 2026 aged 87.. In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry ...

Morally speaking, not always, and in his excellent new biography, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” critic Adam Plunkett wrestles with how to fit the mercurial work (no ...

Poetry Competition opens: April 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM Eastern Time – 0:00 AM Pacific Time Deadline: June 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time – 2:00 PM Pacific Time Participants must verify the exact ...

Let’s begin with the title. “Bluff” — the name of Danez Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and first since January 2020 — represents a cliff or aerie, a high point from which to take ...

Peter Rose, most recent winner of the ‘National Prize for Biography’, argues that biography now provides for readers the ideas and inspiration that poetry and fiction once provided. The biographical ...

The authorized biography of Tupac Shakur opens up about how he befriended Jada Pinkett Smith in high school and their lifelong friendship. It also reveals a poem he wrote about the actress.

“Lyrical Ballads” (1798) – This collection of poems, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is considered one of the most influential works in English literature. It introduced a new style of poetry ...