Jagoe was born in Britain and spent part of her early childhood in Nigeria; she’s also lived in France and Spain doing ...

Cummings served as an ambulance driver in World War I and published his first book of poetry a few years after. Best known ...

That anyone would even attempt to sit down and translate a significant chunk of all Greek or Latin lyric poetry, and cram both the Greek and Latin poems into one volume is, let’s face it, a little ...

Rhyme N Chatt and WanderLinger have gone beyond generating interest in the niche hobby that is spoken-word poetry, fostering ...

Instead, he offers something else we also need: poems that won’t let us look away. Take ships, which make compelling lyric symbols. Think Whitman (“worn and old/… torn by many a fight …/I only saw, at ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s ...

Weaving together the Genesis myth, Yoruba culture, and contemporary Black British culture, a young poet explores the haunting ...

Malayalam poet Anvar Ali talks to Assamese poet Jiban Narah on the political strains in his poetry and why ethnic languages ...

“For the first part of the Folger’s existence, it was primarily a research library,” said Witmore, “serving scholars who were ...

Langston Hughes. Legacy Lit, Nov. 5 ($25, ISBN 978-1-5387-6891-4) This collection showcases the Harlem Renaissance poet’s writings from 1919 to 1929, including poems published in the NAACP ...

Charli XCX’s Brat can be seen as part of a multimedia tradition of women’s writing that is honest and no longer afraid of ...

POEMS syndrome and multiple myeloma are two rare blood conditions that affect the plasma cells in your body. Plasma cells are a type of white blood cell that make special antibodies to help you ...