A Poet Whose Tone Was Personal and Whose Vision Was Vast “True Life,” a collection of verse by the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, arrives in English translation almost exactly two years after ...

SIDDHARTHA Menon’s new poetry collection Lone Pine (Hachette India) carries 68 poems, most of which have titles inspired by the natural world: leaves, fog, river mornings. Topography teaches the poet ...

Andrea had a unique ability to offer their readers and listeners a way of living, to show us how much we need tenderness, and ...

W hile many poets take the natural world as their muse, Nina Mingya Powles refashions our very understanding of it. In her ...

The most recent U.S. poet laureate—and the first Native American to fill the role— Joy Harjo, served for three, from 2019 until passing the baton to Limón in July 2022. A doorway to poetry ...

Madden became South Carolina's first municipal poet laureate in 2015 when a committee chose him to represent Columbia. In the nearly eight years since, three other cities in South Carolina have ...

28 Years Later’s ‘Boots’ Poem, Explained The poem in the trailer sets a perfect tone, as the dramatic reading builds tension and crescendos in intensity alongside the trailer’s imagery.

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and ...

Her introduction to poetry came through Tupac Shakur’s “The Rose That Grew from Concrete,” a collection she sought out because she loved him as a rapper.