It’s that time of the year: the time when I need to carry my favorite poem in my pocket and read it frequently. I do this to inoculate myself against the fantasies that come up about now. Not ...

Even if you’re one of the nine or so people in the world who actually understand what “Auld Lang Syne” means, you have to admit that Robert Burns’ traditional New Year’s poem is getting ...

New Year’s Eve is a time for parties, for fear of missing out on parties and, sometimes, for singing the Robert Burns poem “Auld Lang Syne.” New Year’s Day and the few days that follow are ...

She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service ... In it, author Naveed Sheikh claims that “the Christian civilization emerges as the most violent and ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the ... into the joy of the new school year - so, so good.

From this collection comes the poem, “It would be neat if with the New Year…,” which pays homage to life’s roads, especially the rough ones. It alludes to Baca’s own difficult past ...

The author thinks of them as 'word-songs' and hopes they will help bring love and healing into the lives of others during this critical moment in history. There is an extremely powerful force that ...

Ever since then, the 23-year-old youth poet laureate has gone from strength to strength. For example, in 2021 alone, her collection of poems "Call Us What We Carry" was a New York Times Bestseller ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through ... one of 40 moves in 15 years. A year later, Wiman became editor of Poetry magazine, a position he would ...

Selections from The New Yorker’s year in poetry follow. To read these poems in full, and many more, visit the complete poetry archive. Listen to the after-work shovels and snow brushes on my ...