Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

The 2025 Jhalak Prize longlist has been announced, and this year the list includes a new award for poetry. Now in its ninth year, the prize celebrates books from writers of colour whose work has ...

painting (Allan Ramsay the younger), poetry (Robert Burns and Allan Ramsay the elder), fiction (Scott and James Hogg), biography and autobiography (Boswell), history (Thomas Carlyle), philosophy (Hume ...

March 10, 2025 • Ciara Totton reads a poem by Diane Seuss ...

For many, the fact that the success of a song lyric tends to hinge upon on its accompanying music, the voices that sing it, and the performance itself means that it cannot be considered poetry.