This time, they’re looking to “flush out their brains.” The Best Books We Read This Week Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

George’s translations also tend towards trochaic and anapaestic rhythms ... What we are being offered is, after all, poetry, and it therefore has an obligation to shape itself into memorable language, ...

Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of the disease, for instance, and exceptions often had a purpose external to ...

In this well selected and compulsively readable anthology, Harvard English professor Burt (We Are Mermaids) presents 51 poems that address and exemplify queerness in America. In the introduction ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much needed at this time. I believe in “doing unto others as you would ...

The nonprofit group Mass Poetry is holding their Teen Spoken Word Festival at Emerson College. The Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud Festival featured workshops, performances, and competitions ...

MacKenzie Bailey, a senior at Logos Academy in York, secured a top-five finish at the 2025 Pennsylvania Poetry Out Loud state championship, held on March 3 at the State Museum in Harrisburg.

Sawyer Wilhelmi (second from right), a junior at Starkweather High School, is pictured as the third-place finalist in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud State Championship held recently in Bismarck.

Al Sahoud discussed how Arabic literature, particularly poetry, has preserved cultural and historical heritage. He highlighted the poetic traditions of praise, satire, and love poetry, illustrating ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Baylor junior Elizabeth Silva won the state Poetry Out Loud competition in Franklin, Tn., becoming the first Baylor student to do so. As the state champion, Ms. Silva will participate in the ...