Words of stern moral advice to a besotted young man are delivered with a brisk and even sunny touch ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

'I chose this amusing poem because it just sums up that when things go wrong, they can go wrong in a big way and we all have days like these, but hopefully we can smile afterwards about the silly ...

Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Yale University/Wikimedia Commons What might an American hero-poem be? Longfellow invented literary folk-narratives, Whitman invented himself.

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

The Met Goes Oceanic, Mayan, and Edo in the Reborn Rockefeller Wing Why We Still Whisper A Case for Science as an Ally of Faith Audio By Carbonatix James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...