Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has churned. We’ve had three memoirs about her from her husband, John Bayley ...

Seth Brady Tucker’s latest collection of poetry, The Cruelty Virtues, is available now at his website (signed!), the publisher’s, or independent bookstores like Prairie Lights. The free-to-attend ...

Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, will visit William & Mary as part of the College of Arts & Sciences Open Inquiry ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London, started the Poems on the Underground project 40 years ago. She wondered if ...

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world. Since 1986, many millions of London Underground passengers have seen posters ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, ...

Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...

Those poems that you notice on New York City subways and buses first appeared in 1992, as part of a collaboration between the Poetry Society of America and the M.T.A.’s New York City Transit Authority ...

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...