What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Poet Amanda Gorman on her work, 'For Renee Nicole Good'

Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks ...

3 Australian poets explore sites of memory and history – with a degree of play

Each of these poetry collections brings imagination to bear on material objects and places, on works of art, documents and ...
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Amanda Gorman performs new poem at DNC

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman returned to the national political stage on Aug. 21, performing her spoken-word poem "This Sacred Scene" at the Democratic National Convention. Gorman told Vanity Fair ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rare Poem by ‘Big Sleep’ Author Raymond Chandler Found in a Shoebox

A forgotten work by crime writer Raymond Chandler, famous for novels such as The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), has been published in a literary magazine. But unlike his better-known ...
The New Yorker

“Pale Fire,” the Poem: Does It Stand Alone as a Masterpiece? | The New Yorker

Some books, like “The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utility Regulation,” defeat commentary; others, like “Ulysses,” invite it. “Pale Fire,” Vladimir Nabokov’s resplendent rare bird of a novel, ...
The New Yorker

The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child

The medieval poem “Pearl” was written by someone whose identity we do not know, and is set mostly within a dream. Neither of these facts is unusual in medieval poetry. Authorship is often unclear for ...

Read the poem ‘Haze,’ by Sharon Kane

This week’s poem, by Sharon Kane, meditates on the outsized crises of the planet, and then on one small moment of love amidst ...