Modern poetry is markedly different from classic poetry. It relies less on meter and rhyme, and focuses more on biographical events and the everyday experiences of people. So why isn’t poetry more ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication’s poetry critic — assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr’s clear, ...

The new and emerging genre of poetry, Milk and Honey, is the repackaged poetry of teenage love affairs, where “forever” means “never” and “we’re over” means “I’ll see you next week.” It is short and ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

When did the journey of modern Tamil poetry begin? Capturing the “the present” by Bharathi in his free verses or with the penning of the stray verses (Thanipadalkal) by poets like Kalamegam, that were ...

Keeley, a 1949 alumnus, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1954 and transferred to emeritus status in 1994. He taught English, creative writing, comparative literature and translation at Princeton for 40 ...

The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: How Modern is Modern Tamil Poetry? “They captured the sense of contradiction and complexity, marking the modern,” she said, and read out poems of Athmanam to reiterate the ...