Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over spectacle.

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As quaint and graceful as medieval guilds. Grouse feathers float away on the still lake. Summer and reeds; summer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Poetry is the music of our soul. The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, popularly known as P.B. Shelley, wrote, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar ...

Poetry of the Taliban is an English language anthology of poems written by the Afghan Taliban that give an insight into the lyrical souls of the members of this miltant group. Kandahar-based ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that ...