Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

When Eliza Acton’s second collection of poetry was denied publication, she pivoted. The result—a recipe book for home cooks—forever changed the culinary world.

Sometimes, we don’t love the person who loves us. Ancient Greeks and Romans also had a lot to say about this subject.

Before her harrowing footage of life in Mariupol under siege from Russian invaders was viewed around the world in 2022, ...

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...