Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song ... and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats, “Adonais,” inspired the B-side track of the same name.

To right away avoid being depressing, and because beginnings are important, I’ll begin with a poem by the Roman poet Catullus ... I do not achieve any John Cage-like liberation from the shackles of my ...

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025 has been announced today ... “As always it is a privilege for myself and fellow judges Tom Walker and Una Mannion to read ...

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

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 ...

I assumed I would become a school teacher, but poetry was the wild card that popped ... “In more recent days, I consider myself an artist whose foundation is spiritual, not necessarily religious ...

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 ...