In her debut novel 'Paradise Close,' out in paperback next month from Persea, the poet tells two intergenerational stories, ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

What an image,” an audience member whispered, looking at a photo displayed behind poet Claudia Rankine — it depicted a couch ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Poetry like this, year after year, engraved his place upon the landscapes of Central Otago and the Southern Alps in language that everyone could understand. They have become keepsakes, expressing for ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

If you could liken Ajose’s evolution to poetry, it would read like a lyric poem. It would be a stirring verse tacked within the notes of a radiant lyre. It would be a timeless lesson incised in ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...

For every stamp I’ve licked and locked on my skin. For every darling I’ve mailed myself to. Rubbing shoulders with birthday cards, tax notices, divorce […] ...

The musician talks about incorporating a sampled beat into "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discusses his future with the ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...