Employees, poets, and other community members at the Poetry Foundation are protesting the organization’s decision, announced on December 1, to phase out all public programming, beginning in the new ...

Fiona Benson’s Midden Witch is a ferocious and frightening book that illuminates those women – often healers, artists – termed ‘witch’. In Benson’s poems a gentle spirit somehow coexists with an ...

Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent collection, “The New Economy,” was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry, and one of their poems was included in “A Century of Poetry in The New ...

After Rashan Brown finished his first major gig as a spoken-word poet — opening for bestselling author and poet Rupi Kaur at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, in December 2022 — he stepped ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

Across 25 leading AI models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them. Researchers in Italy have discovered that writing harmful prompts in ...

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time Baudelaire introduced ordinary objects into poetry – likening the sky ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Learn how poetry can help your brain handle stress, process feelings, and spark insight. Summary: This episode of The Science of Happiness is part of ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...