Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry microgenre," using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

At the Guggenheim, Johnson offers an epic journey rooted in his own experience as a human cast into the world who, through ...

Michelle Zauner made it big in 2021 not only with Jubilee, the joyous third album by her band Japanese Breakfast that ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

Joan Jonas’ evolving practice explores a wide variety of themes without ever reducing them to simple narratives. Photo: Toby ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

Young people are learning life skills like public speaking and memorization through a national poetry competition. We speak ...

Grounds For Sculpture, a Hamilton, New Jersey–based museum and sculpture garden, presented “Spiral Q: The Parade” from April 2023 to January 2024. This exhibition of multimedia artworks was crafted by ...

The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...